Minority and Women's Business Enterprise Subcontracting Program Clause Samples

Minority and Women's Business Enterprise Subcontracting Program. (a) The contractor agrees to establish and conduct a program which will enable minority and women's business enterprises (as defined in paragraph 5 above) to be considered fairly as subcontractors and suppliers under the contract. In this connection, the Contractor shall: (1) Designate a liaison officer who will administer the contractor's minority and women's business enterprises program; (2) Provide adequate and timely consideration of the potentialities of known minority and women's business enterprises in all "make-or-buy" decisions; (3) Assure that known minority and women's business enterprises will have an equitable opportunity to compete for subcontracts, particularly by arranging solicitations, time for the preparation of bids, quantities, specifications, and delivery schedules so as to facilitate the participation of minority and women's business enterprises; (4) Maintain records showing (i) procedures which have been adopted to comply with the policies set forth in this clause, including the establishment of a source list of minority and women's business enterprises, (ii) awards to minority and women's business enterprises on the source list and (iii) specific efforts to identify and award contracts to minority and women's business enterprises; (5) Include the Utilization of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises clause in subcontracts which offer substantial minority and women's business enterprises subcontracting opportunities; (6) Cooperate with the Government's Contracting Officer for BellSouth Corporation or its affiliates in any studies and surveys of the contractor's minority and women's business enterprises procedures and practices that the Government's Contracting Officer may from time to time conduct; (7) Submit periodic reports of subcontracting to known minority and women's business enterprises with respect to the records referred to in sub-paragraph (4) above, in such form and manner and at such time (not more often than quarterly) as the Government's Contracting Officer for BellSouth Corporation or its affiliates may prescribe. (b) The contractor further agrees to insert, in any subcontract hereunder which may exceed $500,000 (or in the case of WBE $1,000,000 in the case of contracts for the construction of any public facility and which offer substantial subcontracting possibilities) provisions which shall conform substantially to the language of this Agreement, including this paragraph (b) and to notify the Contracting Officer ...
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