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Pursuant to Tenn. Code Xxx. § 12-3-514, any actual respondent may protest. Please refer to the Central Procurement Office's website to obtain a copy of the protest procedures and protest bond requirements or contact the sourcing analyst or category specialist at 000-000-0000. The website for the Central Procurement Office is as follows: xxxxx://xxx.xx.xxx/generalservices/procurement.html. If a written protest and a protest bond are not received by the end of the seven-day period to protest then the Solicitation Coordinator will proceed with the contract award. Efforts to Achieve Diversity Business Participation The Governor's Office of Diversity Business Enterprise ("Go-DBE") is the State's central point of contact to attract and assist minority-owned, woman-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, disabled-owned, and small business enterprises interested in competing in the State of Tennessee's procurement and contracting activities. These diversity business enterprises are defined as follows: Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Woman Business Enterprise (WBE) Businesses that are a continuing, independent, for-profit business which performs a commercially useful function, and is at least fifty-one percent (51%) owned and controlled by one (1) or more individuals in the minority or woman category who were impeded from normal entry into the economic mainstream because of past practices of discrimination based on race, ethnic background, or gender. Service-Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (SDVBE)