For all federal contracts (consultant and construction) that will be advertised or authorized on October 1, 2018 or thereafter, local agencies must use the updated Exhibit 9-D template to calculate Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goals.
Background: On July 31, 2018, Caltrans submitted the Proposed Overall DBE Goal and Methodology of 17.6 percent for 2018-19 through 2020-21 to the Federal Highway Administration, and California must make efforts to achieve this target on all DBE commitments effective October 1, 2018. Updates to the DBE contract goal methodology now require federal local assistance contracts to base goals on a 7 DBEs available per sub-contractable task and factoring the total DBE work made available by 80 percent. Supply and trucking component calculations remain unchanged at 12 percent and 10 percent, respectively, for all tasks that are not determined to be sub-contractable.
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