Disadvantaged Business Enterprises
Prime Contractors
- Team training on supplier diversity return on investment including Mentor-Protégé programs
- Networking your firm and your non-DBE subcontractors with DBE firms
- Evaluating and preparing Bid specification documents
- Analyzing Bidder’s proposal DBE subcontracting responsiveness and responsibility
- Auditing and Verification of Prime Contractor’s DBE participation contract compliance including 2nd-tier subcontracting
- Validation of DBE’s Commercially Useful Function workscopes and “Counting Value”
- Good Faith Efforts evaluation
- Develop TVM DBE Plans for submittal to USDOT Office of Civil Rights including:
26.11 Bidder’s List
26.21 Shortfall analysis
26.27 DBE Financial Institutions
26.33 Overconcentration
26.37 Monitoring & Enforcement Mechanisms
26.39 Small Business Participation
26.45 Overall Goals
26.51 Race-Conscious & Race Neutral Goals
26.53 Good Faith Efforts
Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs)
- Maximizing networking and bidding opportunities with prime bidders and contractors including Mentor-Protégé programs
- Interpreting bid specifications for responsiveness and responsibility
- Planning for pre-bid meetings and contacting prime bidders
- Evaluating subcontract agreements and resolution
- Addressing post-award contract compliance issues including prompt payment and change orders
- Assisting you through the DBE certification application process (understanding the UCP program, differences between DBE and MBE/WBE, accurate documentation, who to contact, etc.)
- Marketing and growing your firm toward becoming a prime contractor
