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CITY OF SOUTH BEND’S GUIDELINES FOR GOOD FAITH EFFORTS BY CONTRACTORS IN MEETING BIDDING OR QUOTING ON PROJECTS WITH MBE/WBE CONTRACT GOALS The City of South Bend (the City) is authorized to set “contract specific” goals to increase MWBE participation in City contracts and procurements per Ordinance No 10761 -21, signed May 12, 2021 by the Common Council of the City of South Bend. MBE/WBE participation goals are set based on based upon the activities within the scope of work and the MWBE contractors available within the State of Indiana and Berrien County Michigan as identified within the disparity study completed in 2020 for the City of South Bend. Project bidders and quoters must try diligently to meet the goal. Failure to do so may result in rejection of your bid/quote as non-responsive to the request for bidsder or quotes. ______________________________________________________________________________ Key Terms: Goal-Eligible Contract refers to a contract that is able to be divided in a way that would allow a subcontractor to perform a commercially useful function AND that contains work represented by at least one of NAICS codes listed in Table 4-9 (“Unweighted Availability”) in the 20210 City of South Bend Disparity Study. Good faith efforts means 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. Goal waiver means the acceptance of the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, despite an inability to meet the established contract goals, as a result of the bidder’s demonstration of good faith efforts to achieve the contract goals. Appeal means to request within 7 days of the bid opening that good faith efforts be reviewed regarding the actions undertaken by a contractor to achieve a contract goal, which, by their scope, intensity, and appropriateness to objective, can reasonably be expected to fulfill the Program's goals. __________________________________________________________________ Should you need a goal waiver, you must complete all MBE/WBE forms for the goal on which you need a waiver. the request for a waiver is contained within the pr front end quote and bid documents. Waiver requests will be evaluated with your bid and granted based upon the GFEs communicated on MBE/WBE fForms 1.0, 2.0, and 2.1. Whether or not a bidder submits a bid with the lowest dollar amount, the bidder will be designated as non -responsive if either project