Management of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Issues in Construction Contracting (2005) / Chapter Skim
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In 36%, the central office staff was assisted by resident engineers or other district-level personnel performing a variety of tasks, including • Reviewing overall contract compliance issues for EEO/ DBE requirements, • Conducting field audits for DBE certifications, • Providing commercially useful function determination through project observations, and • Conducting a preconstruction conference on EEO/DBE. The approach to managing the DBE program did not have any apparent relationship to staff size.
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No information was provided by those experiencing a decline in ready, willing, and able DBE firms. NUMBER OF CERTIFICATIONS The number of certified DBE firms affects every aspect of the DBE program.
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The following are provided as guidelines: • An overall goal must be based on demonstrable evidence of the availability of ready, willing, and able DBEs relative to all businesses ready, willing, and able to participate on STA-assisted contracts. • The goal must reflect a determination of the level of DBE participation absent the effects of discrimination.
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Of the 13 responses obtained to a question about local DBE programs, 7 STAs indicated that local goals had been established. Three STAs indicated that they are not tracking DBE participation in pass through or local let contracts.
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4. Overall goals must provide for participation by all certified DBEs and must not be subdivided into groupspecific goals.
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for goal-setting is as follows: • Use contract goals only on those STA-assisted contracts that have subcontracting possibilities. • Use goals to offset overall goal achievement not accomplished by race-neutral means.
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The current DBE regulations have addressed design–build construction with the following: • State STAs can establish an overall goal for design– build projects. • The "master contractor" under the design–build agreement is responsible for establishing contract goals, as appropriate, for the construction subcontracts it lets.
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The breakdown of the prequalification of prime contractors and subcontractors is as follows: • Prequalify prime contractors (30) -- five states indicated that they did not use prequalification.
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Seven of the 36 STAs responded "no" to this question and four indicated that they were only tracking prime contractors at this time. Many included other information such as contact telephone numbers, fax numbers, and type of work on the bidders list, in addition to the required information.
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projects and functions as a business development and department mentor–protégé system. LINC mentors introduce the protégé firms to TxDOT staff and to prime contractors by providing networking opportunities.
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The final session provides participants with a working view of the opportunities to bid on maintenance contracts as prime contractors. Some additional topics are covered on prequalification, bidders questionnaire, bonding, insurance, and specific contract requirements.
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