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not receive a goal waiver from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s Contractor Compliance Administrator. Good Faith Efforts, defined above as actions undertaken by a contractor to achieve a contract goal, which, by their scope, intensity, and appropriateness to the objective, can reasonably be expected to fulfill the Program's goals, are advance, intentional, and active relationship cultivation strategies that one could reasonably expect a bidder to take if the bidder were actively and aggressively trying to obtain MWBE participation sufficient to meet the MBE/WBE contract goals on a bid or quote. Best practices include the following: • Demonstrate the excessiveness or unreasonableness of the MWBE’s bid or quote. Provide the City with copies of each MWBE and non MWBE quote submitted to the bidder when a non-MWBE was selected over an MWBE. • Provide the City with good reasons for rejecting a MWBE as unqualified. Investigate and share the results of the investigation regarding a MWBE’s capabilities. • Use all aspects the work as opportunities to find MWBE participation. Do not exclude from consideration work normally self-performed and anticipate this will be deemed as a valid rationale for not meeting MBE/WBE utilization goals. GOOD FAITH EFFORTS MATERIALS TO BE INCLUDED WITH BID If a contractor fails to submit a bid containing quotes and commitments in amounts equal to the utilization goals of the project. The contractor must share the efforts and/or rationale for not having met those goals on form 1.0, 2.0, and 2.1. In the event that the actions taken by the contractor indicate there was a good faith effort made the bidder will receive a goal waiver from the Office of Diversity, Compliance, and Inclusions Contractor Compliance Officer. All bids which have not met the utilization goals and do not receive a goal waiver from the Contract Compliance are considered non-responsive according to the City of South Bend’s Ordinance No 10761-21. As set forth in Section 8.B.3.d. of the City of South Bend’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise Inclusion Program Plan: Where the bidder cannot achieve the contract goal, the bidder must provide proof of having made good faith efforts to meet the goal. In making this determination of whether to issue a goal waiver, the City will consider, at a minimum, the bidder’s efforts to: (1) Solicit through all reasonable and available means (e.g., attendance at pre-bid meetings, advertising and written notices) the interest of all MWBEs in the scopes of work of the contract. The contractor shall provide interested MWBEs with timely, adequate information about the plans, specifications, and requirements of the contract