Disadvantaged Businesses. The Grantee agrees to take the affirmative action necessary to assure qualified disadvantaged business enterprises are used when possible as sources for construction and service.
Disadvantaged Businesses. The County has adopted policies which assure and encourage the full participation of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) in the provision of goods and services. The County encourages joint ventures between majority-owned firms and qualified disadvantaged/minority/women-owned firms.
Disadvantaged Businesses. The COUNTY has adopted policies which assure and encourage the full participation of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) in the provision of goods and services. The COUNTY encourages joint ventures between majority-owned firms and qualified disadvantaged/minority/women-owned firms. Tobacco Products. Tobacco use, including both smoke and smokeless tobacco, is prohibited on COUNTY owned property.
Disadvantaged Businesses. The HAULER shall comply with the Provisions Relating to Disadvantaged Businesses, which is attached as Exhibit "H" and made part of this Agreement. The DEPARTMENT’S participation in the Project is expressly conditioned on submission of a Disadvantaged Business Submittal, in the form and with the contents specified in that exhibit, prior to the commencement of any work on the Project. The DEPARTMENT shall have the option to withdraw its participation at any time if this submission is not forthcoming or is insufficient, as determined by the DEPARTMENT.
Disadvantaged Businesses. The FRHA will give preference to Section 3 business concerns when feasible. The purpose of section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended by section 915 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, is to “Ensure that employment and other economic opportunities generated by HUD financial assistance shall, to the greatest extent feasible, and consistent with existing Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, be directed toward low and very low income persons, particularly those who are recipients of government assistance for housing, and to business concerns which provide economic opportunities to low and very low income persons.” Please ask for the Section 3 business concern application or download from our website here: xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/Section3BusinessConcernApplication.pdf and submit with your authorized vendor application. Section 3 information and instructions are included in the Section 3 business concern application. The FRHA seeks and encourages business with other disadvantaged businesses such as MBEs (Minority owned Business Enterprises) and WBEs (Woman Owned Business Enterprises). If you’re interested in participating please be sure to indicate in your vendor application and provide any documentation necessary to prove your disadvantaged status.
Disadvantaged Businesses. The Parties recognize SANDAG’s interest in promoting competition and inclusion of Disadvantaged Businesses, which may not be signatory to a current Master Agreement. In order to promote participation and attract Disadvantaged Businesses to work under this CBA, and subject to the limitations set forth below, each Contractor that is a Disadvantaged Business may first employ three (3) of its core employees per craft on each Covered Project prior to employing an employee through the appropriate Union hiring hall. The next (fourth) employee shall be hired from the appropriate Union hiring hall and thereafter, such Contractor may employ, as needed, two (2) additional Core Employees in an alternating manner with Union referrals, up to a total of five (5) Core Employees. Thereafter, all additional employees in the affected trade or craft shall be requested and referred from the appropriate Union hiring hall. The foregoing Core Employee hiring procedure for Disadvantaged Businesses is subject to the following limitations:
(1) Provisions of subsection (a) are available only to a Disadvantaged Business with an individual subcontract value of $500,000 or less, or one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the value of the prime construction contract or individual job order for the Covered Project (or of the task order value, for Covered Work performed pursuant to a professional services agreement task order), whichever is greater; and
(2) The total value of all subcontracts utilizing the foregoing Core Employee hiring procedure shall not exceed twenty (20) percent of the contract award value of each Covered Contract, and each Disadvantaged Business is limited to using this procedure for one subcontract per Covered Project or individual job order per master Job Order Contract; and
(3) In order to assist the Project Labor Coordinator in monitoring compliance with this Section, each Prime Contractor will be responsible for tracking, reporting and providing notice to the Project Labor Coordinator describing each Disadvantaged Business subcontract that qualifies for the foregoing hiring procedure prior to work commencing.
Disadvantaged Businesses. The use of small and disadvantaged businesses is always a consideration when choosing a supplier. In fulfilling this commitment, Yahalom Hesaim Ltd. and Jaffa Taxi Ltd. continued being utilized as transportation service providers and the Jerusalem Hotel as catering for our advocacy event. No audits were completed in the previous quarter. The year (FY16) began with preparations for project development together with our Palestinian partner XxxXxxxx, a Palestinian nonprofit with a mission to promote Palestinian exports as a sustainable force for economic growth. The Xxxxx Center and PalTrade have a longstanding relationship and have worked together on various projects over the past 8 years, creating the foundations for the organizations’ joint effort here. During this initiation phase, the partners set out to recruit researchers specializing in food industry standards in order to complete the Needs Assessment Study (NAS). The Xxxxx Center also began the process of recruiting the external evaluators for the project in order to insure the accuracy and integrity of the evaluation of the project in accordance with the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan. An RFQ for qualified evaluators was published accordingly. During Q2, the partners experienced tremendous scheduling challenges due to significant delays in receiving vetting approval for PalTrade. Contracting the NAS writers and the recruitment of external evaluators were put on hold, as were other scheduled activities such as the advancement of the NAS, drafting of a work plan for the external evaluation, and the design and printing of visibility props. On March 11th, 2016, upon receiving vetting approval of XxxXxxxx, the partners immediately reinitiated work on activities which had been delayed. In order to overcome the delays caused by this process, the partners worked to reconfigure the timeframe of the project’s activities. In Q3, the recruitment of an external evaluator was successfully finalized. The Needs Assessment study, which experienced delays as a result of delay in vetting, began with the Palestinian researchers, Associates in Building Capacity (ABC) and the Israeli researchers, Industrial and Economical Progress (IEP), jointly selecting criteria and strategies for choosing the subsectors for the B2B project. An early draft of the NAS identified the following 4
