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AB-1635 Public contracts: small business participation.(2017-2018)



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AB1635:v98#DOCUMENT

Revised  April 26, 2017
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 05, 2017

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1635

Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-Silva
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Reyes)

February 17, 2017

An act to add Section 14838.8 to the Government Code, relating to public contracts.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1635, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Public contracts: small business participation.
The Small Business Procurement and Contract Act requires the Director of General Services and the heads of other state agencies that enter into contracts for the provision of goods, services, and information technology and for the construction of state facilities to establish goals for the participation of small businesses in these contracts, to provide for small business preference in the award of these contracts, to give special consideration and special assistance to small businesses, and, whenever possible, to make awards to small businesses, as specified.
This bill would require all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions a state agency, as defined, to establish and achieve an annual goal of that at least 25% of the procurement activities administered by that agency include a small business participation in state procurements and contracts, participant, to ensure that the state’s agency’s procurement and contract processes practices are administered in order to meet or exceed a manner that supports the agency in meeting or exceeding the goal, and to report to the director statistics regarding small business participation in the agency’s procurements and contracts. procurement activities. The bill would require the Department of General Services to monitor the progress of the agencies toward meeting the goal and to provide this information to the Office of Small Business Advocate. The bill would also require a state agency, department, board, or commission agency that has not achieved the goal by the close of the fiscal year to submit a corrective action plan to the department within 45 days.
The bill would require the department, in collaboration with the Office of Small Business Advocate, to undertake reasonable means to assist agencies in improving small business participation in their contracting. The bill would also require the Office of Small Business Advocate to collaborate with the department to cooperatively enhance the state’s small business program by helping small businesses access capital and other financial resources necessary to successfully fulfill state contracts.

The bill would require all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions to use a contracting procedure established in the act for specified contracts with small businesses whenever possible.

The bill would apply to define “state agency” to mean all state public entities that receive state public funding, including the California State University, the University of California, and the California Community Colleges. In calculating the total amount of contracting covered by this bill, the California State University, the University of California, and the California Community Colleges would only be required to meet the 25% goal for state funding used in contracting.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 14838.8 is added to the Government Code, to read:

14838.8.
 (a) In order to encourage small business participation in state contracts, all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions a state agency shall establish and achieve an annual goal of that at least 25 percent of the procurement activities administered by that agency include a small business participation in state procurements and contracts. participant. This goal shall set the minimum goal that a state agency must set to comply with subdivision (a) of Section 14838. Nothing in this chapter prohibits an agency from setting a higher small business participation goal.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the heads of all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions head of a state agency shall ensure that the state’s agency’s procurement and contract processes practices are administered in order to meet or exceed in a manner that supports the agency in meeting or exceeding the 25 percent small business participation goal, and shall report to the director statistics regarding small business annual participation in his or her agency’s procurements and contracts. procurement activities.
(c) The Department of General Services Consistent with the requirements of subdivision (g) of Section 14845, the department shall monitor the progress of all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions toward a state agency toward meeting the 25 percent small business participation goal. The department shall regularly share information with the Office of Small Business Advocate on the progress of each individual agency, department, board, and commission in meeting the annual goal, including, but not limited to, providing copies of corrective action plans.
(d) (1) A state agency, department, board, or commission agency that has not achieved the 25 percent small business participation goal by the close of the fiscal year shall submit a corrective action plan to the Department of General Services department within 45 days.
(2) The Department of General Services, department, in collaboration with the Office of Small Business Advocate, shall undertake reasonable means to assist agencies in improving small business participation in their contracting, including entering into memoranda of understanding with the agencies that have not met the goal to improve performance.

(e)All state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions shall use the contracting procedure authorized in Section 14838.5 to contract with small businesses for goods and services contracts under one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) and construction contracts under one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000) whenever possible.

(f)

(e) The Department of General Services department shall actively promote small business certification, help small businesses market their products, goods, and services to the state, and promote the use of technologies and other innovative solutions for notifying small businesses of state contracting opportunities, including, but not limited to, the Subscription Outreach Service of the California State Contracts Register.

(g)

(f) The Department of General Services department shall collaborate with the Office of Small Business Advocate in the office’s work to assist small businesses access to capital and other financial resources necessary to successfully fulfill state contracts.

(h)

(g) This section applies to For purposes of this section, “state agency” means all state agencies, departments, boards, commissions, and other state public entities that receive state funding including the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges. In calculating the total amount of contracting covered by this section, the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges shall only be required to meet the 25 percent goal for state funding used in contracting.

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