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SFPUC highlights Social Impact Partnership Program; firms and interns detail results
Summary
Deputy AGM Yolanda Manzoni presented an update on the SFPUC’s Social Impact Partnership Program, describing a voluntary corporate-social-responsibility element in solicitations for contracts $5 million and up and documenting outcomes including scholarships, internships and community services across nearly 70 contracts.
Yolanda Manzoni, Deputy Assistant General Manager for External Affairs, told the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on April 9 that the Social Impact Partnership Program embeds voluntary community outcomes into large contract solicitations and ties them to measurable deliverables.
"We developed the social impact partnership program to do just that," Manzoni said, describing how firms can earn up to 5 percent of RFP points for proposals that commit to outcome-based work in areas such as education, environmental justice, workforce development and small-business support. Manzoni said those firm commitments become binding contract terms if the bid succeeds and that the…
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