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Palm Beach County adopts overhauled small-business ordinance to streamline certification and goals
Summary
The county board approved a rewritten small‑business ordinance that standardizes evaluation preferences, simplifies certification, tightens commercially useful function rules and changes the goal‑setting committee; staff and local owners said the changes will expand access for local firms. (Vote 7-0)
Palm Beach County commissioners voted unanimously to adopt a rewritten small‑business ordinance intended to simplify certification and make contracting preferences more consistent across county procurements.
The ordinance, presented by county staff, updates definitions, moves operational detail into a policies and procedures manual, raises evaluation preferences to represent up to 15% of total solicitation points on a sliding scale, and tightens commercially useful function (CUF) and domicile rules intended to ensure firms credited as local actually perform the work. Jonathan Brown, presenting for the…
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