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Yes, our statement is as follows:
"SAS customers represent a wide range of industries, people and locations – and we
want this same level of diversity reflected in our supplier community. Because SAS
is not a typical manufacturing environment, the creation of our product does not
require purchasing materials or component parts but rather relies on a highly skilled
staff of technical professionals. SAS complies with the federal laws and regulations
which prohibit discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, gender,
national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
As a federal contractor, SAS also
complies with Executive Order 11246, as amended, and the implementing rules and
regulations of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance, Vietnam Era Veterans
Readjustment Assistant Act of 1974, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
In the area of professional services offered to its customers, SAS provides small
business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically
disadvantaged individuals and women-owned small businesses the maximum
practicable opportunity to participate in the subcontracts it awards to the fullest
extent consistent with the efficient performance of the contract.
Regarding the procurement of goods and services to support corporate operations,
SAS is committed to continuously seek ways to make business opportunities
available to minority-owned, women-owned, small disabled-owned, HUBZone, and
small disabled veteran-owned businesses.
To that end, SAS is a member of the
National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) and the Women's
Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). We also participate in local chapter
events and are committed to the community in numerous areas such as education
and literacy. Finally, SAS uses its own commercially available software for supplier
relationship management, SAS Supplier Relationship Management, to consolidate and classify data in order to
better track its ongoing commitment to supplier diversity."
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