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Committee hears bill to create Oregon Small Business Enterprise procurement preference
Summary
DAS and Business Oregon described a proposed program to give preferences to Oregon small businesses in state procurement, including a race- and gender-neutral Oregon Small Business Enterprise certification and a roughly six-month rulemaking timetable; implementation costs were not finalized.
The committee heard testimony on House Bill 2,337, which would direct the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) to establish a small-business procurement preference and create an Oregon Small Business Enterprise certification.
Debbie Dennis, deputy director at DAS, said the bill would implement a primary recommendation from a statewide disparity study DAS completed: to “establish a small business procurement program” that would allow agencies to set targets for Oregon-based small…
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