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Palm Beach County adopts revised small-business ordinance to streamline certification and scoring
Summary
The Board of County Commissioners approved revisions to the Office of Small Business Development ordinance to simplify certification, move procedural details to policy, and standardize an SBE evaluation preference representing 15% of bid points; board vote was unanimous.
The Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners on December 1 approved an update to the county's Office of Small Business Development (OSBD) ordinance intended to simplify certification, clarify domicile and commercially useful function rules, and standardize scoring that favors small, local firms.
The board approved staff's ordinance amendments after a presentation from Jonathan Brown and OSBD staff outlining multiple changes: streamlining documentation for certification, moving detailed procedures into the policies and procedures manual, applying SBE evaluation preferences as 15% of the total available scoring…
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