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PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE ID 17-4245
(Finance Committee 10/11/2017)
Sponsored by: JES?S G. GARC?A, Cook County Board of Commissioners
PROPOSED ORDINANCE
THE COOK COUNTY SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners that Chapter 34 Finance, Article IV Procurement Code, Division 6 Bid Incentives and Preferences, sections 34-229 and 34-241 of the Cook County Code, be amended as follows:
DIVISION 6. - BID INCENTIVES AND PREFERENCES
Sec. 34-229. - Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Division shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning. Terms not defined in this section are defined in Division 1 of this Procurement Code, or in Section 1-3 of the Cook County Code.
Apprentice means any person who: (1) is enrolled in an apprenticeship program approved by and registered with the United States Department of Labor's Office of Apprenticeship, or its successor organization; or (2) has graduated within the past four years from an apprenticeship program that has been approved by and registered with the United States Department of Labor's Office of Apprenticeship, or its successor organization.
Armed forces of the United States means the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or service in active duty as defined under 38 U.S.C. Section 101. Service in the Merchant Marine that constitutes active duty under Section 401 of federal Public Act 95-202 shall also be considered service in the armed forces for purposes of this division.
Committee means Cook County Re-entry Employment Committee.
County Marketplace means the six-county region, currently the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will.
Bid incentive means an amount deducted, for bid evaluation purposes only, from the contract base bid in order to calculate the bid price to be used to evaluate the bid on a c...
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