Resolution Approving DBE Policy for Bowers Field

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August 19, 2015 (2) Providing assistance in overcoming limitations such as inability to obtain bonding or financing (e.g., by such means as simplifying the bonding process, reducing bonding requirements, eliminating the impact of surety costs from bids, and providing services to help DBEs, and other small businesses, obtain bonding and financing); (3) Providing technical assistance and other services; (4) Carrying out information and communications programs on contracting procedures and specific contract opportunities (e.g., ensuring the inclusion of DBEs, and other small businesses, on recipient mailing lists for bidders; ensuring the dissemination to bidders on prime contracts of lists of potential subcontractors; provision of information in languages other than English, where appropriate); (5) Providing services to help DBEs, and other small businesses, increase opportunities to participate in a variety of kinds of work, handle increasingly significant projects, and achieve eventual self-sufficiency; (6) Assist new, start-up firms, particularly in fields in which DBE participation has historically been low; (7) Ensuring distribution of your DBE directory, through print and electronic means, to the widest feasible universe of potential prime contractors; and (8) Assisting DBEs, and other small businesses, to develop their capability to utilize emerging technology and conduct business through electronic media. The breakout of estimated race -neutral and race -conscious participation can be found in Attachment 5 to this program. Section 26.51(b) Contract Goals The County of Kittitas, WA will arrange solicitations, times for the presentation of bids, quantities, specifications, and delivery schedules in ways that facilitate participation by DBEs and other small businesses and by making contracts more accessible to small businesses, by means such as those provided under § 26.39.. If our approved projection under paragraph (b) of this section estimates that we can meet our entire overall goal for a given year through race -neutral means, we will implement our program without setting contract goals during that year, unless it becomes necessary in order to meet our overall goal. We will establish contract goals only on those DOT -assisted contracts that have subcontracting possibilities. We need not establish a contract goal on every such contract, and the size of contract goals will be adapted to the circumstances of each Page 13 of 43