Title
Proposed GLWA Procurement Policy Amendment
Body
Agenda of: June 28, 2023
Item No.: 2023-233
Amount: N/A
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Suzanne R. Coffey, P.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: June 28, 2023
RE: Proposed GLWA Procurement Policy Amendment
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Nicolette Bateson, Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer, Financial Services, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), approves the Proposed Amendment to the Procurement Policy with an immediate effective date and authorizes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
In the Board adopted Procurement Policy, GLWA's Business Inclusion and Diversity (B.I.D.) Program provides for both a "Business Inclusion & Diversity Plan" (Section 4.6) (scored as pass or fail) and a "Economic Equity and Development" (Section 4.7) (scored according to a three point criteria). These provisions are included below.
4.6 Business Inclusion and Diversity Plan
GLWA is committed to providing business opportunities to vendors who honor the values of inclusion and diversity in selecting their business partners. To foster these values, the solicitation selection will require vendors to submit, for all solicitations budgeted at $1 million or more, a Business Inclusion & Diversity Plan that addresses their efforts to include Minority-owned Business Enterprise (MBE), Woman-owned Business Enterprise (WBE), Small Business Enterprise (SBE), and Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) subcontractors.
a. In support of this commitment, the vendor agrees to ensure that, with regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this procurement policy, inclusion and diversity business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, gender,...
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