CPUC Praises Telcos for Procurement Diversity
AT&T, Sprint and Verizon made the list of top utilities and telecom companies in a California supplier diversity program in 2015, the California Public Utilities Commission said Wednesday. The 30 companies in CPUC’s program procured more than $8.9 billion in…
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goods and services in 2015 from women-, minority- and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises, the CPUC said. In 2015, AT&T California spent $1 billion to diverse firms, or nearly 48.6 percent of total procurement buys, while Sprint spent $585.2 million (44.5 percent) and Verizon spent $82.7 million (51.23 percent), the commission said. Supplier diversity reports filed by the companies are on the CPUC website.