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Vendor & Supplier Diversity Program Assessment
Evaluates how well your organization sources from certified diverse-owned suppliers — spend levels, barriers, and category priorities — for procurement and sourcing leaders. An AI follow-up interview reconstructs a real recent sourcing decision to surface what actually helped or blocked a diverse supplier from winning the business.
Sample questions
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14 questions · ~7 min
Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired
Which best describes your role in vendor or supplier selection?
- I make or approve final sourcing decisions
- I recommend suppliers but someone else approves
- I manage the supplier diversity program itself
- I influence budget/requirements but not supplier choice
- I have no direct role in vendor selection
Q03
Number
Roughly what percentage of your team's or business unit's procurement spend went to certified diverse-owned suppliers in the last fiscal year? (Enter your best estimate as a whole number, e.g., 15)
Q04
MatrixRequired
How much of a barrier is each of the following when trying to source from diverse-owned suppliers?
7 rows × 4 columns
- Finding qualified diverse suppliers in the category we need
- Verifying or trusting diversity certifications
- Diverse suppliers' capacity to handle our contract size
- Budget or pricing pressure favoring incumbent vendors
- Risk aversion from leadership or legal/compliance
- +2 more
Columns: Not a barrier · Minor barrier · Moderate barrier · Major barrier
Q05
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required
Which supplier diversity categories should your organization prioritize expanding over the next year?
- Women-owned businesses
- Minority-owned businesses
- Veteran-owned businesses
- LGBTQ+-owned businesses
- Businesses owned by people with disabilities
- Small and local businesses
- Employee-owned or worker cooperatives
- Businesses in economically disadvantaged regions
Pick best & worst per setBest:Highest priorityWorst:Lowest priority
Q06
Point AllocationRequired
If you had 100 extra points of budget to invest in growing supplier diversity, how would you allocate them across these initiatives?
- Scouting and identifying new diverse suppliers
- Helping suppliers get or maintain certification
- Mentorship and capacity-building for diverse suppliers
- Contract set-asides or reserved bids for diverse suppliers
- Training buyers and sourcing teams on inclusive sourcing
- Better tracking and reporting systems for diverse spend
Allocate 100 points
Q07
Opinion ScaleRequired
Compared to your traditional vendors, how satisfied are you with the quality and reliability of the diverse-owned suppliers you've worked with?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Much worse than traditional vendorsMax:Much better than traditional vendors
Q08
Multiple ChoiceRequired
Does your organization currently have a formal supplier diversity program with defined goals?
- Yes, with tracked goals and reporting
- Yes, but goals are informal or untracked
- In development
- No formal program
- Not sure
Q09
Rating ScaleRequired
How would you rate leadership's actual support for vendor diversity goals (budget, time, accountability) versus stated commitment?
Range: 1 – 5
Min:Talk only, little real supportMax:Strong, resourced support
Q10
AI Interview
Ask the respondent to walk through one specific recent sourcing decision where a diverse-owned supplier was considered — what the requirement was, whether the supplier won the business, and the concrete reason for the outcome (price, capacity, relationship, risk sign-off, etc). If a diverse supplier lost, probe what would have needed to be true for them to win. If they can't recall a specific example, ask why diverse suppliers rarely make it into their consideration set at all.
Q11
Message
A couple of quick background questions, then you're done.
Q12
Multiple Choice
Which department or function are you in?
- Procurement / Sourcing
- Finance
- Operations
- Legal / Compliance
- Executive leadership
- Other
- Prefer not to say
Q13
Multiple Choice
How large is your organization by number of employees?
- Fewer than 250
- 250-999
- 1,000-4,999
- 5,000-19,999
- 20,000 or more
- Prefer not to say
Q14
Message
That's everything — thank you! Your answers feed directly into a report on where our vendor diversity program has real momentum and where it's stuck.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Includes a direct spend-percentage question and a constant-sum budget allocation exercise, so you get quantified current spend and where leaders want to invest next, not just attitudes
- A matrix question ranks specific sourcing barriers and a MaxDiff question prioritizes which supplier diversity categories to expand, giving decision-ready trade-off data
- An AI follow-up interview asks the respondent to walk through one real, recent sourcing decision to surface what actually helped or blocked a diverse supplier from winning the business
- Rating and opinion-scale questions on leadership support and vendor quality satisfaction are paired with role, department, and company-size questions for clean segmentation in the auto-generated report
SurveyMonkey
Vendor Workplace Diversity Survey TemplateThis is a ready-to-field template on an established survey platform, but its framing leans toward assessing diversity within a vendor's own workplace rather than a procurement team's sourcing spend, barriers, and category priorities. It's a fixed-question template, not an interview instrument. Useful as a quick starting point if you want a generic diversity questionnaire rather than a sourcing-decision assessment.
What it does well
- Deployable immediately on a widely-used survey platform with established distribution and reporting tools
- Simple, familiar format for respondents
- Likely easy to customize question wording within SurveyMonkey's editor
Where it falls short
- Static question set with no adaptive follow-up to probe a specific real sourcing decision
- No mechanism to reconstruct or quantify what helped or blocked a diverse supplier in an actual deal
- No transparent prompt methodology since there's no AI interview component
Jotform
Supplier Diversity Registration Form TemplateThis is a supplier-facing registration/intake form, not an internal assessment survey for procurement or sourcing leaders. It's built for collecting supplier certification and contact details, not for measuring program performance, spend levels, or internal barriers. Good for onboarding diverse suppliers, but a different tool for a different job than a program assessment.
What it does well
- Drag-and-drop form builder makes it easy to customize registration fields
- Suited for collecting structured supplier certification and contact data
- Familiar, quick-to-complete form format for external suppliers
Where it falls short
- Not designed to assess internal spend levels, barriers, or category priorities at all
- Static form fields with no adaptive follow-up questioning
- No way to capture the narrative of a specific sourcing decision or surface what helped/blocked a supplier
Frequently asked questions
What questions are in the “Vendor & Supplier Diversity Program Assessment” template?
The template includes 14 ready-to-use questions, starting with: “Thanks for taking a few minutes on this. We're assessing how vendor diversity actually works in day-to-day sourcing deci…” · “Which best describes your role in vendor or supplier selection?” · “Roughly what percentage of your team's or business unit's procurement spend went to certified diverse-owned suppliers in…”. The full set is previewed above, and every question is editable.
How long does this survey take to complete?
Respondents typically finish the 14 questions in about 7 minutes.
Can I customize this template?
Yes — every question, answer option, and the ordering is editable before you launch. You can add or remove questions, or ask the AI editor to rework the survey around your research goal.
Is this template free to use?
Yes. Open it in the editor and start customizing right away — no account required to try it, and the free plan covers launching your survey.
Ready to launch?
Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.
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