1. Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses
HUB Coordinators Update
Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses

2. What has the HUB Office been up to - Certifications?
Eliminated Annual Affidavit Process
Simplified Re-Certification application
Reduced the number of required documents to submit for Re-Certification

3. What is new with the SWUC Search
Improvements made to HUB Vendor Search:
Search criteria displayed
HUB status abbreviations displayed
Single certification category (on web results and exportable spreadsheet)
Certification dates and certification end dates are displayed on the exportable spreadsheet
Exportable spreadsheet can display up to 3 commodity codes or construction codes

4. What does the Search change look like?

5. What the Search looks like (continued)…
Search Criteria are shown
HUB status abbreviations are shown
Single HUB certification category is displayed

6. Spreadsheet changes Single Certification is displayed
Certification Dates and Certification End Dates are included

7. Spreadsheet changes continued
Results for up to 3 commodity can be displayed.

8. Spreadsheet changes continued
Results for up to 3 Construction codes (and Construction License) can be displayed

9. What is new with Registration?
The electronic Vendor Portal (eVP)
Went live late September
Consolidates registration to one website for:
E-Procurement
e-Quote
IPS
HUB certification
Existing vendors’ data transferred over, will need updating
We plan to put the link to the log in and instructions on the HUB Office website

10. eVP Links Vendor Login Page- https://vendor.ncgov.com/login.jhtml
New Registration Page- vendor?execution=e1s1
Web Based Trainings-
General eVP Information Page -
Link to the Online Guidelines – public/pandc/OnlineTrainingMaterials/eVP%20Registration_Quick%20Hel p.pdf

11. HUB Office Activities – Goods and Services
Created reporting system for purchases of goods and services:
Uses IPS
No more spreadsheets faxed, mailed and/or ed,
Saved a lot of storage space and time, eliminated manual data entry by the HUB Office.
School system financial services software improvement
Monthly meetings with purchasing officers within state agencies
Developed annual HUB performance goals for cabinet agency purchasing directors

12. HUB Office Activities - Construction
InterScope+ went online for state agencies, universities, and community colleges.
Linked to the IPS system to pull in HUB status of vendors used.
HUBSCO is still used by local public entities
Monthly meetings with capital project coordinators within state agencies
Developed annual HUB performance goals for state agency capital project coordinators  
Provided training on Minority Participation Goals, Good Faith Efforts and reporting
In Person
Web-based

13. What is on our plates going forward
Improving InterScope+’s ability to gather HUB related information and generate useful reports.
InterScope+ HUB Reporting subcommittee’s first meeting was Wednesday November 2nd.
We will be working with SunPac and LINQ to improve the ability of school systems to capture relevant data for their goods and services reports.
Improve the IPS purchasing of goods and services reporting interface.
Outreach to increase awareness and ability to report on construction spending (Municipalities, Counties, other local public entities).
Investigating how the HUB category was removed from the Construction Manager At Risk Evaluation in InterScope+ and how to address the issue going forward.

14. Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew Disaster and Recovery Forum, approximately 170 vendors attended to learn about how to be involved with opportunities to help the state recover from the effects of Hurricane Matthew.

15. HUB Participation in FY 15-16
Construction Spending
Total $ spent (all entities): $413 Million (down $119 Million)
Total HUB $ spent (all entities): $ Million (up $24.59 Million)
HUB % of total $ spent: 29.97% (up 12.01%)
Goods and Services:
Total $ spent (all entities): $7.1 Billion (up $1 Billion)
Total HUB $ spent (all entities): $348 Million (up $25 Million)
HUB % of total $ spent: 4.88% (down 0.4%)

16. Contact Information
HUB Office
Website:
Main Office Phone:
John Guenther, Compliance Officer

17. Thank you for coming.