6325 - PROCUREMENT - FEDERAL GRANTS/FUNDS

Contracting with Small and Minority Businesses and Women's Business Enterprises

The Corporation shall take affirmative steps to provide that minority businesses and women's business enterprises are used when possible.

Such affirmative steps shall include:

1. placing qualified small and minority businesses and women's business enterprises on solicitation lists;
    
2. assuring that small and minority businesses, and women's business enterprises are solicited whenever they are potential sources;
    
3. dividing total requirements, when economically feasible, into smaller tasks or quantities to permit maximum participation by small and minority businesses, and women's business enterprises;
    
4. establishing delivery schedules, where the requirement permits, which encourage participation by small and minority businesses, and women's business enterprises;
    
5. using the services and assistance, as appropriate, of such organizations as the Small Business Administration and the Minority Business Development Agency of the Department of Commerce; and
    
6. requiring the prime contractor, if subcontracts are to be let, to take the affirmative steps listed in this guideline.

Definitions

Small Business - A small business is a privately owned company in the legal form of a corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship. The Small Business Administration (SBA) defines a small business as one that typically makes a maximum of $750,000 – $38.5 million in annual revenue and has less than 100 – 1,500 employees, depending on industry.

Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises - A Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is an American term which is defined as a business which is at least fifty-one percent (51%) owned, operated and controlled on a daily basis by one (1) or more (in combination) American citizens of the following ethnic minority and/or gender (e.g. woman-owned) and/or military veteran classifications:

1. African American
    
2. Asian American or Pacific Islander (includes West Asian Americans (India, etc.) and East Asian Americans (Japan, Korea, etc.))
    
3. Hispanic American - Persons with origins from Latin America, South America, Portugal and Spain (SBA.gov)
    
4. Native American, including Aleuts
    
5. Hasidic Jew
    
6. Service – Disabled Veteran Owned a.k.a. SDVBE (Service-Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise), a.k.a. DVBE (Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise) which became a Federally certified classification in 1999, subsequent to the passage of legislation by the United States Congress through the enactment of The Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Act of 1999 (The Act); legislation that was further expanded by Congress in 2001.

MBE's can self-identify, but are typically certified by a city, State or Federal agency.

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