SMAA 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 where feasible.
SMAA will attempt to ensure that DBE firms in its market are aware of the contracting opportunities at SRQ.
Prime contractors subcontracting to DBE firms on contracts that do not contain contract DBE goals
Prime contractors subcontracting to DBE firms in amounts that exceed established contract goals.
Race Conscious Component – The portion of the overall goal that SMAA expects to meet through DBE subcontracting required by the written terms of prime construction contracts ("contract goals").
SMAA shall establish the Race Neutral Component at the highest level it believes is realistically attainable and seek to meet the remainder of the overall goal using contract goals. The breakout of estimated race-neutral and race-conscious participation can be found in Attachment 6 to this program.
SMAA will establish contract goals only on those contracts that have subcontracting possibilities and only to the extent necessary to meet the portion of its overall goal not otherwise met by race-neutral means. Contract goals will not necessarily be established on every contract with subcontracting opportunities and the contract goal percentage will be adapted to the circumstances of each individual contract for which contract goals are established by considering, among other factors, the type and location of work and the resulting availability of DBEs to perform that particular type of work.
In FAA-assisted contracts for which contract goals are established, we will express our contract goal as a percentage of the total amount of the prime contract.
Demonstration of good faith efforts
The bidder on an FAA-assisted contract is required to make good faith efforts to meet the established DBE contract goal. The bidder can demonstrate that it has done so either by (1) meeting the established contract goal or (2) documenting that good faith efforts were made in a sincere attempt to meet the established contract goal. Examples of good faith efforts are found in Appendix A to Part 26.
The DBE Liaison is responsible for determining whether a bidder who has not met the contract goal has documented sufficient good faith efforts to be regarded as responsive to the solicitation.