§ 706 Small, Minority and Women Owned Business Outreach

Directors shall, wherever practicable and to the extent consistent with Tribal  preference requirements, make positive efforts to use small, minority and women owned business sources of supplies and services. Outreach efforts shall include, where practical:

A. Placing qualified small, minority and women owned businesses on solicitation lists;

B. Assuring that small, minority and women owned businesses are solicited whenever they are potential sources;

C. Dividing total requirements, when economically feasible, into smaller tasks or quantities to permit maximum participation by small, minority and women owned businesses;

D. Establishing delivery schedules, where the requirement permits, which encourage participation by small, minority and women owned businesses;

E. Using the services and assistance of the Small Business Administration and the Minority Business Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce; F.Requiring a prime contractor, if subcontracts are to be let, to make the same or similar outreach efforts when securing subcontracts for goods or services. 

[Legislative History: Enacted by Resolution No. 2018-76, 10/19/2018]