Looking for a Diversity Reseller?

Who Needs a Diversity Reseller?

Organizations across government, education, healthcare, defense contracting, and corporate procurement regularly need to meet diversity spend goals as a condition of their contracts, grants, corporate commitments, or legal requirements. If your organization falls into any of these categories, working with a diversity reseller is often the fastest path to meeting those requirements:

How to Vet a Diversity Reseller

Not all diversity-certified businesses are equally capable of supporting enterprise procurement requirements. Before engaging a reseller, evaluate them on these key criteria:

• 1 Verify certifications. Confirm the business holds current, valid diversity certifications from recognized bodies — SBA, VA, NMSDC, WBENC, or equivalent. Check expiration dates.
• 2 Assess electronic capability. Can they receive POs electronically? Send invoices electronically? Provide punchout or hosted catalog access? Manual-only suppliers create friction and compliance risk.
• 3 Confirm they are the seller of record. Invoices should come from the diversity business — not the end supplier. If invoices come from a non-diverse entity, the arrangement may be a pass-through.
• 4 Evaluate their product coverage. Do they have suppliers covering the categories you need — MRO, office supplies, IT, safety, facilities? A reseller with multiple supplier integrations is more valuable than a single-category vendor.
• 5 Request diversity spend reporting samples. Can they produce reports that document your spend by diversity category, transaction date, and certification type? If not, your compliance reporting will be difficult.
• 6 Check references. Ask for references from other buyers with similar procurement volumes and requirements. How do they handle order issues? What's their response time?

What Makes a Provision Connect Reseller Different

Every diversity reseller powered by Provision Connect operates with a full e-commerce and e-procurement platform — electronic ordering, punchout connectivity, hosted catalogs, cXML integration, and automated diversity spend reporting. They are not manual, phone-order businesses. They are technology-enabled procurement partners who can integrate directly with your existing ERP or procurement system.

Our platform ensures every transaction is documented, every invoice comes from the diversity business, and every order is visible and traceable — giving both buyers and resellers the protection they need in an increasingly compliance-focused procurement environment.