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City of Everett 00 4539 - 1 <br /> <br />RCW 35.22.650 Certification <br />004539-1 202082-10 May 2024 <br />pw://Carollo/Documents/WA/Everett/202082-100000/04 Design/04 Specs/Carollo/004539 (FS-100) <br /> <br />SECTION 00 4539 - RCW 35.22.650 CERTIFICATION <br />A set percentage of minority group member employees or minority business subcontracts is not <br />required in the performance of the Work under this Contract. However, RCW 35.22.650 requires <br />bidders (a) to actively solicit (i) employment of minority group members and (ii) subcontract bids <br />from minority businesses, and (b) to submit evidence of its compliance with these requirements <br />for active solicitations: <br />RCW 35.22.650 <br />All contracts by and between a first-class city and contractors for any public work or <br />improvement exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars, or fifteen thousand dollars <br />for construction of water mains, shall contain the following clause: <br />"Contractor agrees that the contractor shall actively solicit the employment of <br />minority group members. Contractor further agrees that the contractor shall <br />actively solicit bids for the subcontracting of goods or services from qualified <br />minority businesses. Contractor shall furnish evidence of the contractor's <br />compliance with these requirements of minority employment and solicitation. <br />Contractor further agrees to consider the grant of subcontracts to said minority <br />bidders on the basis of substantially equal proposals in the light most favorable <br />to said minority businesses. The contractor shall be required to submit evidence <br />of compliance with this section as part of the bid." <br />As used in this section, the term "minority business" means a business at least fifty- <br />one percent of which is owned by minority group members. Minority group members <br />include, but are not limited to, blacks, women, native Americans, Asians, Eskimos, <br />Aleuts, and Hispanics. <br />I. Bidder confirms that it actively solicits employment of minority group members. _________ <br />[yes or no] <br /> <br /> <br />II. Please estimate the percentage of Bidder’s employees on this Project that will be made <br />up of minority group members: ___________ [state estimated percentage] <br /> <br /> <br />III. Please estimate the percentage of goods and services that will be subcontracted to <br />minority businesses on this Project: __________ [state estimated percentage] <br /> <br />