# Presentation: 933204

## Disadvantaged Business Enterprise ProgramNew On-Line Reporting & New Concessions Rule

- FAA, Northwest Mountain Region
- Airports Conference, April 6, 2005

- Presented by:
- Christine Whitehead and Joelle Briggs
- External Program Managers, Civil Rights Staff

## Two Major Changes in DBE

- 	DBE Office On-Line Reporting System (DOORS)
- 	Issuance of the New Concessions Rule, 49 CFR Part 23

## IF Time Permits

-   Good Faith Effort Evaluations
-    Monitoring and Enforcement

## DOORS PROGRAM

**Automates the Uniform Report of DBE Awards or Commitments and Payments **
**Website address for recipient’s to access is:  **_[http://crext.agl.faa.gov](http://crext.agl.faa.gov/)_

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## Data Entry Mirrors the Uniform Report

**Data Entry Mirrors the Uniform Report**

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## Notification of Data Entry Errors

**Notification of Data Entry** **Errors**

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## New DBE Concessions Regulation49 CFR Part 23

- Signed March 8, 2005
- Major Changes
- Plan Submittal Timeline
- Overview of Goal Setting Process

## Concession Plan Submittal Timeline

**Primary Airports Only**
- Large/Medium HUB – January 1, 2006
- 1st Update October 1, 2008 (then every 3 years)
- Small HUB – October 1, 2006
- Update every 3 years
- Non-HUB Primary – October 1, 2007
- Update every 3 years

## Good Faith Effort Evaluation

## Monitoring and Enforcement Mechanisms

## Section 26.37	Monitoring and Enforcement Mechanisms

-    The [*Recipient*] will take the following monitoring and enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance with 49 CFR Part 26.

## Section 26.37	Monitoring and Enforcement Mechanisms

**     ****We will bring to the attention of the Department of Transportation any false, fraudulent, or dishonest conduct in connection with the program, so that DOT can take the steps (e.g., referral to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, referral to the DOT Inspector General, action under suspension and debarment or Program Fraud and Civil Penalties rules) provided in 26.109.**

## Section 26.37	Monitoring and Enforcement Mechanisms

**We will consider similar action under our own legal authorities, including responsibility determinations in future contracts.  ****Attachment ___ lists the regulation, provisions, and contract remedies available to us in the events of non-compliance**** with the DBE regulation by a participant in our procurement activities.**

## Section 26.37	Monitoring and Enforcement Mechanisms

**     ****We will also ****implement a monitoring and enforcement mechanism to ensure that work committed to DBEs at contract award is actually performed by the DBEs.****  This mechanism will provide for a running tally of actual DBE attainments (e.g., payment actually made to DBE firms), including a means of comparing these attainments to commitments.  This will be accomplished by [*****describe the mechanism*****].**

## Section 26.37	Monitoring and Enforcement Mechanisms

**In our reports of DBE participation to DOT, we will show both commitments and attainments, as required by the DOT reporting form.**

## QUESTIONS?

- Christine Whitehead
- 425-227-2095
- _[christine.whitehead@faa.gov](mailto:christine.whitehead@faa.gov)_
- Joelle Briggs
- 425-227-2095
- _[joelle.briggs@faa.gov](mailto:joelle.briggs@faa.gov)_