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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
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 34-297 - Contract Pre-Award Compliance Procedures is hereby amended as follows:
Sec. 34-297. - Contract Pre-Award Compliance Procedures.
(a) For all solicitations, the Contractor, Person, or Business shall submit a Utilization Plan detailing all subcontractors from which the Contractor, Person, or Business solicited bids or quotations, and if Project Specific Goals have been established, its achievement of the Goals or its Good Faith Efforts to do so. The Utilization Plan shall be due at the time the bid/proposal is due. Any Contractor, Person, or Business requesting a partial or full waiver shall submit a Good Faith Effort Transparency Report with its Utilization Plan when the Utilization Plan is due. In the event a bid or proposal leads to a Contract with the County, the Utilization Plan as approved, and any Good Faith Effort Transparency Report as approved and applicable, by the CCD shall be incorporated as a material commitment on the part of the Contractor, Person, or Business to each relevant PCE, and the Contractor, Person, or Business, and the County. Failure to include a Utilization Plan, and Good Faith Effort Transparency Report, where applicable, shall render the bid or proposal not Responsive.
(b) Any agreement between a Contractor, Person, or Business and a PCE in which the Contractor requires that the PCE not provide subcontracting quotations to other Contractors is prohibited.
(c) Where the Contractor, Person, or Business cannot achieve the Project Specific Goal(s), the CCD will determine whether the Contractor, Person, or Business has made Good Faith Efforts to meet the Goal(s), based upon the submission of a Good Faith Effort Transparency Report by the bidding Con...
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