Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 19 - CORPORATION AND BUSINESS › Part VIII - Small Entrepreneurship (Hudson Initiative) Certification Program › Subpart 2 - Procurement › Chapter 13 - Procedures › Section VIII-1317 - Implementation Procedures

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. In
				  an effort to maximize the SE (HI)'s success, the following procedures will be
				  implemented to maximize opportunities for certified SE participation.
1. The Division of Administration and state
				  departments/agencies are responsible for the direct operation and direct
				  implementation of the SE (HI).
2.
				  Each department/agency of the state shall choose an initiative coordinator. The
				  person chosen to be initiative coordinator shall be the person serving as the
				  undersecretary of the department or the business manager for an agency. The
				  initiative coordinator or his designee shall be responsible for acting as a
				  business advisor to work directly with certified SE's and contractors to
				  provide information, assistance, and support. The Division of Administration
				  and state departments/agencies will undertake various tasks to make the program
				  workable, including the following:
a. provide
				  information to certified SE's on the state's organization and contractual needs
				  and offer instructions on procurement policy, procedures, and general RFP/ITB
				  requirements;
b. provide workshops
				  and training sessions at least twice each year for certified SE's on challenges
				  frequently encountered by certified SE's during bid/proposal process and
				  generally when doing work for the state;
c. enhance the existing state's procurement
				  and financial database to identify certified SE's for historical and reporting
				  purposes;
d. hold pre-bid and
				  pre-proposal seminars to explain bid and proposal requirements, including an
				  explanation of the forms that must be submitted with the response or
				  proposal;
e. conduct outreach
				  activities;
f. conduct internal
				  information workshops to inform and acquaint the state employees responsible
				  for state procurement and public contracts with the goals and objective of the
				  state's SE (HI) initiative and to sensitize them to the problems of
				  SE's;
g. inform certified SE's of
				  ITB's and RFP's related to their capabilities by placing notices on the state's
				  central procurement website, LaPac.
3. The state will encourage the formation of
				  joint ventures/alliances among certified SE's and larger firms to provide
				  opportunities for certified SE's to gain experience.
4. The state will encourage a mentoring
				  program between large businesses and certified SE's to share information and
				  experiences.
5. In RFP's requiring
				  the compliance of a good faith subcontracting plan the state may require
				  proposers to submit information on their business relationships and
				  arrangements with certified SE subcontractors at the time of proposal review.
				  Agreements between a proposer and a certified SE subcontractor in which the
				  certified SE subcontractor promises not to provide subcontracting quotations to
				  other proposers shall be prohibited.