Regular Dealer. A DBE/SBE that owns, operates, or maintains a store, warehouse, or other establishment in which the materials, supplies, articles or equipment of the general character described by the specifications and required under the contract are bought, kept in stock, and regularly sold or leased to the public in the usual course of business. To be a regular dealer, the firm must be an established, regular business that engages, as its principal business and under its own name, in the purchase and sale or lease of the products in question. A person may be a regular dealer in such bulk items as petroleum products, steel, cement, gravel, stone, or asphalt without owning, operating, or maintaining a place of business as provided above if the person both owns and operates distribution equipment for the products. Any supplementing of regular dealers' own distribution equipment shall be by a long-term lease agreement and not on an ad hoc or contract-by-contract basis. Whether a DBE/SBE firm meets the criteria for being treated as a regular dealer is a contract-by-contract determination to be made by the Department.
Regular Dealer. 11 You may claim credit for 60 percent of the value of the materials or supplies 12 purchased from a DBE regular dealer. Rules applicable to regular dealer status are 13 contained in 49 CFR Part 26.55.e.2. 14 15 To be considered a regular dealer you must meet the following criteria: 16
Regular Dealer. If the materials or supplies are purchased from a DBE regular dealer, count 60 percent of the cost of the materials or supplies. A regular dealer is a firm that owns, operates, or maintains a store, warehouse, or other establishment in which the materials, supplies, articles or equipment of the general character described by the specifications and required under the contract are bought, kept in stock, and regularly sold or leased to the public in the usual course of business.
