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Board adopts purchasing manual revisions on SBE rules and agrees approach for lobbying RFP SBE plans

5843538 · August 21, 2025
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Summary

The Solid Waste Authority adopted revisions to its purchasing manual to reflect new small-business (SBE) policy language and agreed a process for an upcoming lobbying-services RFP that will require SBE plans but not SBE-scoring points in the solicitation.

The Solid Waste Authority board unanimously adopted revisions to its purchasing manual to reflect the authority’s revised small-business enterprise (SBE) policy and related changes requested after the board’s June executive-order review.

Staff said the purchasing manual adjustments remove prior MWBE/SBMWBE language and update procurement language to the board’s direction. The board approved the amended manual 7-0.

Separately, the board discussed an upcoming RFP for legislative and…

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