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Committee backs three-year pilot to boost local-business participation on $20M+ city contracts
Summary
The Budget and Finance Committee recommended a three-year, optional Local Business Enterprise pilot that would give scoring bonuses for joint ventures with certified micro/small local businesses and for local participation in core disciplines on large professional services and design‑build contracts.
Malia Cohen, chair of the San Francisco Budget and Finance Committee, moved the panel through an ordinance to pilot incentives intended to raise local business participation on large city contracts. Ivy Fine, director of the Contract Administration Bureau at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, presented the proposal as a three-year, optional program departments may choose to use on contracts over $20,000,000.
Fine said the pilot has two incentive tracks: a joint-venture rating bonus of 2%–6%…
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