DEPARTMENT: Transportation and Capital Improvements
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
Professional Services Contract for Small Minority & Women Owned Business Enterprises (SMWBE).
SUMMARY:
An Ordinance authorizing the negotiation and execution of two (2) professional services contracts with Event Professional Services, LLC and Sams Contracting Consulting and Training, LLC, each in the amount not-to-exceed $75,000.00 per year, to provide one-on-one management and technical assistance and training to enhance the capacity of targeted small construction businesses seeking to contract with the City of San Antonio as prime contractors or subcontractors. Each contract is for a term of one year, with four additional one-year extension options, at $75,000.00 per annual extension.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
After scores of stakeholder meetings enlisting the energies and ideas of numerous community, corporate and civic representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Alamo City Chamber of Commerce, Alamo Area Asian Chamber of Commerce, San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and various community professionals and leaders, City Council approved a 5-Year Contracting Diversity Action Plan on January 11, 2013.
An important strategy of the 5-Year Contracting Diversity Action Plan is to build capacity and encourage small, minority, and women-owned businesses (SMWBEs) to participate on City contracts as prime contractors and subcontractors. In support of this strategy, City Council approved funds in the FY 2014 Budget to pilot a SMWBE Management & Technical Assistance Initiative.
The City has supported training and technical assistance to SMWBEs for years through the Economic Development Department's Mentor/Prot?g? and Bonding Assistance Program. However, ongoing discussions with community stakeholders and partner organizations indicate there is a nee...
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