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August 19, 2015 <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 />(9) Assisting DBEs, and other small businesses, to develop their capability to <br />utilize emerging technology and conduct business through electronic media. <br />The breakout of estimated race -neutral and race -conscious participation can be found in <br />Attachment 5 to this program. <br />Section 26.51(d -g) Contract Goals <br />The County of Kittitas will arrange solicitations, times tar the presentation of bids, <br />quantities, specifications, and delivery schedules in ways that facilitate participation by <br />DBEs and other small businesses and by making contracts more accessible to small <br />businesses, by means such as those provided under § 26.39.. <br />If our approved projection under paragraph (c) of this section estimates that we can <br />meet our entire overall goal for a given year through race -neutral means, we will <br />implement our program without setting contract goals during that year, unless it <br />We will establish contract goals only on those DOT -assisted contracts that have <br />subcontracting possibilities. We need not establish a contract goal on every such <br />contract, and the size of contract goals will be adapted to the circumstances of each <br />such contract (e.g., type and location of work, availability of DBEs to perform the <br />particular type of work.) <br />Page 13 of 43 <br />