Board of Commissioners of Cook County - File #: 19-2297

• File #: 19-2297
• Version: 2
• Name: Good Faith Effort Transparency Reporting Ordinance
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Approved
• File created: 3/11/2019
• In control: Contract Compliance Committee
• On agenda: 3/21/2019
• Final action: 5/23/2019
• Title: Proposed Second Amendment to File #19-2297 (Contract Compliance Committee May 22, 2019) PROPOSED AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE GOOD FAITH EFFORT TRANSPARENCY REPORTING BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Chapter 34 - Finance, Article IV - Procurement, Division 8 - Minority and Woman-Owned Business Enterprises, Section 34- 281 - The Good Faith Effort Transparency Report - Section 34-283 - Contract Compliance Director Waiver Transparency Reporting is hereby enacted as follows: Sec. 34-281 - The Good Faith Effort Transparency Report. Any Person who seeks a partial or full waiver request shall submit a Good Faith Effort Transparency Report upon its partial or full waiver request. The Good Faith Effort Transparency Report shall include: (g) A detailed list of any and all PCEs whom the Contractor, Person, or Business engaged, contacted, and/or reviewed, in the County's Marketplace, from the County's list of PCEs and/or other State and local government agencies, whom Co...
• Sponsors: BILL LOWRY, ALMA E. ANAYA, LUIS ARROYO JR, SCOTT R. BRITTON, DENNIS DEER, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRANDON JOHNSON, DONNA MILLER, STANLEY MOORE, KEVIN B. MORRISON, SEAN M. MORRISON, PETER N. SILVESTRI, DEBORAH SIMS, LARRY SUFFREDIN, JEFFREY R. TOBOLSKI

Date	Ver.	Action By	Motion	Result
5/23/2019	1	Board of Commissioners	approve as amended	Pass
5/22/2019	1	Contract Compliance Committee	accept as amended	Pass
5/22/2019	2	Contract Compliance Committee	recommend for approval as amended	Pass
3/21/2019	1	Board of Commissioners	refer	Pass

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Proposed Second Amendment to File #19-2297 (Contract Compliance Committee May 22, 2019)
PROPOSED AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE GOOD FAITH EFFORT TRANSPARENCY REPORTING

BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Chapter 34 - Finance, Article IV - Procurement, Division 8 - Minority and Woman-Owned Business Enterprises, Section 34- 281 - The Good Faith Effort Transparency Report - Section 34-283 - Contract Compliance Director Waiver Transparency Reporting is hereby enacted as follows:

Sec. 34-281 - The Good Faith Effort Transparency Report.

Any Person who seeks a partial or full waiver request shall submit a Good Faith Effort Transparency Report upon its partial or full waiver request. The Good Faith Effort Transparency Report shall include:

(g) A detailed list of any and all PCEs whom the Contractor, Person, or Business engaged, contacted, and/or reviewed, in the County's Marketplace, from the County's list of PCEs and/or other State and local government agencies, whom Cook County recognizes and/ or has a reciprocity agreement with, which identify qualified PCEs for solicitation of bids, for the purposes of securing a bid with the County;

(h) A detailed explanation of the Contractor, Person, or Business' proposed divided procurement requirements. This explanation will include, but not limited to;
? How the Contractor, Person, or Business proposed to divide the procurement requirements into small tasks and/or quantities into economically feasible units to promote PCE participation; and
? Whether the proposed procurement requirement divisions are consistent with availability of PCEs;

(i) A detailed explanation of the Contractor, Person, or Business' negotiations in good faith with PCEs. If the Contractor, Person, or Business fails to contact a PCE, this explanation will include, but is not limited to;
? The timeliness when the Contractor, Person, or Business knew of the bid, when the Contractor, Person, or Party formulated its bid and utilizati...