MVWBE Participation

CEO Statement

The year 2020 launched a new decade of cultural growth and a commitment to diversity and inclusion at Methodist Health System. Despite the emergence of a global pandemic and its devastating effects on people, families, and businesses, the year still provided a viable opportunity to redefine and rebuild the foundation for hope in the North Texas community.  

Impact Professional Group (IPG) started the year by wrapping up a successful project with Methodist Richardson Medical Center. The project involved adding a new garage and expanding the bed tower and operations for the already flourishing hospital. However, the project’s highlight was the reengagement of several minority-owned companies (or MBEs) that built the original hospital. Most notably, Skiles Group partnered with MBE and veteran-owned GCC Enterprises to build the garage and bed tower expansion. As a result, our Tier 1 partner Gregory Cody, President of GCC Enterprises, elevated his skills and experience.  

The Methodist Midlothian Medical Center project with DPR Construction is an inspiring story of how a team overcame significant obstacles from the onset. After committing to a minimum of 30% MVWBE participation, it was decided the project was ideal for a prefabrication design and build. However, after reevaluating the total spend, we realized the proposed prefabrication process would eliminate local and MVWBE opportunities, resulting in 16% participation. 

Therefore, we introduced a solution that created more MVWBE opportunities, which resulted in the partnership between Richardson, Texas-based Native Solutions and Polk Mechanical to perform the mechanical work. Their collaboration produced one of the most complex solutions in the entire project. They also achieved an unprecedented 47% MBE participation for the mechanical scope of work — the highest individual scope participation on the whole project. Our entire team celebrated their outstanding work, exemplifying another example of strong, qualified MBE partnerships.   

As your partner, IPG remains unwavering in our commitment to empowering every company to succeed and create business opportunities that foster economic growth in every community we serve. We make the most significant impact in strengthening minority businesses by removing historical barriers, increasing their industry value, and providing access to major capital improvement projects.  

I’m proud of how our partnership has helped MVWBEs increase their performance capacity to participate in capital improvement projects. As of December 31, 2020, we delivered 32% participation with 78 contracts awarded to MVWBE recipients of Methodist Health System contracts. These results are a prime example of how we can achieve such initiatives through focused and intentional collaboration.  

Partnering with nationally ranked Methodist Health System provides IPG the unique opportunity and challenge to demonstrate our support of small businesses and expertise in building strong supplier diversity networks. If more healthcare systems commit to being servant leaders that are patient-focused and diversity-driven, there is no limit to what we can achieve together.

Don Lee