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Lake County purchasing manager: supplier‑diversity spend rising; reverse vendor fair set for March 17
Summary
Lake County purchasing manager Yvette Alberon told the committee the county is increasing spend with diversity‑classified vendors, uses b2gnow to track classifications, added 815 vendor registrations this year (9,772 total), and will partner on a reverse vendor fair at College of DuPage on March 17.
Yvette Alberon, Lake County purchasing manager, presented an update on the county’s supplier‑diversity program and procurement outreach.
Alberon said a 2022 public act requires certain taxing districts to collect and publish vendor demographic information; Lake County uses a third‑party platform (b2gnow) to match spend from its purchasing system against certified diversity databases and to generate analytics. "We use this to maintain compliance with the act," Alberon said.
She told the…
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