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Supervisors consider major rewrite of local business enterprise rules, Hsu seeks 40% participation goal
Summary
President Hsu introduced an ordinance to reform Chapter 14B (Local Business Enterprise) with a citywide 40% participation goal, bid discounts, mentorship and contractor advance payments; stakeholders broadly supported modernization while urging changes to size thresholds and incentives for large contracts.
The Board of Supervisors committee took up an ordinance to comprehensively revise Chapter 14B — the Local Business Enterprise and nondiscrimination in contracting law — aimed at increasing local small‑business participation in city contracting.
"Part of what we are trying to do is to establish a new overall citywide participation goal of 40% for all contracts," President Hsu said as he outlined proposed amendments that also would raise LBE size thresholds, expand bid discounts, require good‑faith efforts to solicit multiple bids from micro or small LBEs for certain…
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