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July 29, 2016 <br />Section 26.51(a -c) Breakout of Estimated Race -Neutral & Race -Conscious <br />Participation <br />(a) The Kittitas County will meet the maximum feasible portion of its overall goal by <br />using race -neutral means of facilitating race -neutral DBE participation. Race -neutral <br />DBE participation includes any time a DBE wins a prime contract through customary <br />competitive procurement procedures or is awarded a subcontract on a prime contract <br />that does not carry a DBE contract goal. <br />Race -neutral means include, but are not limited to the following: <br />(1) Arranging solicitations, times for the presentation of bids, quantities, <br />specifications, and delivery schedules in ways that facilitate participation by <br />DBEs and other small businesses and by making contracts more accessible to <br />small businesses, by means such as those provided under §26.39 of this part. <br />(2) Providing assistance in overcoming limitations such as inability to obtain <br />bonding or financing (e.g., by such means as simplifying the bonding process, <br />reducing bonding requirements, eliminating the impact of surety costs from bids, <br />and providing services to help DBEs, and other small businesses, obtain bonding <br />and financing); <br />(3) Providing technical assistance and other services; <br />(4) Carrying out information and communications programs on contracting <br />procedures and specific contract opportunities (e.g., ensuring the inclusion of <br />DBEs, and other small businesses, on recipient mailing lists for bidders; ensuring <br />the dissemination to bidders on prime contracts of lists of potential <br />subcontractors; provision of information in languages other than English, where <br />appropriate); <br />(5) Implementing a supportive services program to develop and improve <br />immediate and long-term business management, record keeping, and financial <br />and accounting capability for DBEs and other small businesses; <br />(6) Providing services to help DBEs, and other small businesses, improve long- <br />term development, increase opportunities to participate in a variety of kinds of <br />work, handle increasingly significant projects, and achieve eventual self- <br />sufficiency; <br />(7) Establishing a program to assist new, start-up firms, particularly in fields in <br />which DBE participation has historically been low; <br />(8) Ensuring distribution of your DBE directory, through print and electronic <br />means, to the widest feasible universe of potential prime contractors; and <br />13 <br />