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File #: 2023-233    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: New Business
File created: In control: Board of Directors
On agenda: 6/28/2023 Final action:
Title: Proposed GLWA Procurement Policy Amendment
Sponsors: Nicolette Bateson
Indexes: Finance
Attachments: 1. 7B1 AC Memo - Proposed Procurement Policy Amendment, 2. 7B3 GLWA Procurement Policy WORKING Draft 6.23.23, 3. 8C Business Inclusion and Diversity Program Update
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Proposed GLWA Procurement Policy Amendment

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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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