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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="14-204" title_number="14" title_name="Preferences" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Small Business Preference Program">
  <text>The Special Secretary for the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs shall adopt regulations to establish procedures for:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>compiling and maintaining a comprehensive bidder’s list of small businesses;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>locating potential sources for various construction related services, supplies, and services and affirmatively seeking to locate potential minority business enterprise sources for those construction related services, supplies, and services;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>helping small businesses to comply with the procedures for bidding on procurement contracts;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>examining requests for construction related services, supplies, and services to determine when an invitation for bids may be designated for the Small Business Preference Program;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>bidding for a procurement contract designated for a small business preference;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>simplifying procurement specifications and terms, to increase the opportunities for small business participation;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>investigating the responsibility of bidders on small business preferences; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>explaining to a small business the reason for which its bid for a small business preference was rejected.</text>
  </level>
</section>
