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CITY OF EVERETT - PROPOSAL <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Everett Mall Bus Platform PROPOSAL December 2024 <br />WO No – MALLSTN/24462 P-9 <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 for <br />construction of water mains, shall contain the following clause: <br />"Contractor agrees that the contractor shall actively solicit the employment of minority <br />group members. Contractor further agrees that the contractor shall actively solicit bids <br />for the subcontracting of goods or services from qualified minority businesses. <br />Contractor shall furnish evidence of the contractor's compliance with these requirements <br />of minority employment and solicitation. Contractor further agrees to consider the grant <br />of subcontracts to said minority bidders on the basis of substantially equal proposals in <br />the light most favorable to said minority businesses. The contractor shall be required to <br />submit evidence 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-one <br />percent of which is owned by minority group members. Minority group members include, but <br />are not limited to, blacks, women, native Americans, Asians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Hispanics. <br /> <br /> <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 />Please estimate the percentage of goods and services that will be subcontracted to minority <br />businesses on this Project: __________ [state estimated percentage] <br /> <br />