Bill Amendment: IL SB2365 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly
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Bill Title: PROCUREMENT-SCORING-DIVERSITY
Status: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB2365 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB2365-House_Amendment_002.html
Bill Title: PROCUREMENT-SCORING-DIVERSITY
Status: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB2365 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB2365-House_Amendment_002.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2365
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2365 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Sections 20-15 and 20-60 and by adding Section 50-85 | ||||||
| 6 | as follows:
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| 7 | (30 ILCS 500/20-15)
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| 8 | Sec. 20-15. Competitive sealed proposals.
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| 9 | (a) Conditions for use. When provided under this Code or | ||||||
| 10 | under
rules, or when
the purchasing agency determines in | ||||||
| 11 | writing that the use of
competitive sealed bidding
is either | ||||||
| 12 | not practicable or not advantageous to the State, a
contract | ||||||
| 13 | may be entered into by
competitive sealed proposals.
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| 14 | (b) Request for proposals. Proposals shall be solicited
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| 15 | through a request for proposals.
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| 16 | (c) Public notice. Public notice of the request for
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| 1 | proposals shall be published in the
Illinois Procurement | ||||||
| 2 | Bulletin at least 14 calendar days before the date set
in the | ||||||
| 3 | invitation for the opening
of proposals.
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| 4 | (d) Receipt of proposals. Proposals shall be opened
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| 5 | publicly or via an electronic procurement system in the | ||||||
| 6 | presence of one or
more witnesses at the time and place | ||||||
| 7 | designated in the request for
proposals, but proposals shall
be | ||||||
| 8 | opened in a manner to avoid disclosure of contents to competing
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| 9 | offerors during the process
of negotiation. A record of | ||||||
| 10 | proposals shall be prepared and
shall be open for public | ||||||
| 11 | inspection
after contract award.
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| 12 | (e) Evaluation factors. The requests for proposals shall
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| 13 | state the relative importance of
price and other evaluation | ||||||
| 14 | factors. Proposals shall be submitted
in 2 parts: the first, | ||||||
| 15 | covering
items except price; and the second, covering price. | ||||||
| 16 | The first
part of all proposals shall be
evaluated and ranked | ||||||
| 17 | independently of the second part of
all proposals.
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| 18 | (e-5) Method of scoring. | ||||||
| 19 | (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection | ||||||
| 20 | (e-5), all procurement scoring rubrics for contracts | ||||||
| 21 | entered into under this Code shall account for and allocate | ||||||
| 22 | 20% of the total available points toward evaluation of each | ||||||
| 23 | respondent's commitment to diversity and shall require | ||||||
| 24 | documentation supporting that purpose. The specific | ||||||
| 25 | documentation required shall be set by rule by the Chief | ||||||
| 26 | Procurement Officer. | ||||||
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| 1 | (2) The scoring rubric requirements established under | ||||||
| 2 | this subsection (e-5) shall include, but are not limited | ||||||
| 3 | to, the following: | ||||||
| 4 | (A) for publicly-owned businesses, the number and | ||||||
| 5 | percentage of members of the respondent's governing | ||||||
| 6 | board who are women, minorities, or persons with | ||||||
| 7 | disabilities; | ||||||
| 8 | (B) for privately-owned businesses, the respondent | ||||||
| 9 | shall identify whether it or the subsidiaries it owns | ||||||
| 10 | or controls are managed by women, minorities, or | ||||||
| 11 | persons with disabilities. For the purposes of this | ||||||
| 12 | subparagraph (B), "managed by women, minorities, or | ||||||
| 13 | persons with disabilities" means being managed by | ||||||
| 14 | women, minorities, or persons with disabilities, or | ||||||
| 15 | any combination of women, minorities, or persons with | ||||||
| 16 | disabilities equal to at least 51% of the total number | ||||||
| 17 | of management personnel; | ||||||
| 18 | (C) the respondent shall provide the number and | ||||||
| 19 | percentage of the respondent's owners and managers who | ||||||
| 20 | are women, minorities, or persons with disabilities; | ||||||
| 21 | (D) the number and percentage of the respondent's | ||||||
| 22 | senior executive leaders, including partner, | ||||||
| 23 | president, chief operating officer, managing director, | ||||||
| 24 | or other senior executives, who are women, minorities, | ||||||
| 25 | military veterans, or persons with disabilities; | ||||||
| 26 | (E) the number and percentage of the respondent's | ||||||
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| 1 | staff, including both full-time and part-time | ||||||
| 2 | employees, who are women, minorities, or persons with | ||||||
| 3 | disabilities; and | ||||||
| 4 | (F) the respondent's intended use of | ||||||
| 5 | subcontractors for a project, if any, that are women, | ||||||
| 6 | minorities, or persons with disabilities. | ||||||
| 7 | (3) When a request for proposal is issued by any State | ||||||
| 8 | agency or public institution of higher education and falls | ||||||
| 9 | within a service or product offering that has a history of | ||||||
| 10 | disparate awards to a class of business owners that are | ||||||
| 11 | identified under the Business Enterprise Program Act, the | ||||||
| 12 | scoring rubric allocation provided for under paragraph (1) | ||||||
| 13 | shall be 30% of the total available points towards | ||||||
| 14 | evaluation of each respondent's commitment to diversity. | ||||||
| 15 | (4) If any State agency contract is eligible to be paid | ||||||
| 16 | for or reimbursed, in whole or in part, with federal-aid | ||||||
| 17 | funds, grants, or loans, and the provisions of this | ||||||
| 18 | subsection would result in the loss of those federal-aid | ||||||
| 19 | funds, grants, or loans, then the contract is exempt from | ||||||
| 20 | the provisions of this Section in order to remain eligible | ||||||
| 21 | for those federal-aid funds, grants, or loans. | ||||||
| 22 | (5) When the price offered by the highest-ranking | ||||||
| 23 | offeror to a request for proposals, which includes the | ||||||
| 24 | allocated percentage of scoring based on diversity, is | ||||||
| 25 | found to be more than 15% higher than the next-ranked | ||||||
| 26 | offeror by the purchasing State agency or public | ||||||
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| 1 | institution of higher education, the Chief Procurement | ||||||
| 2 | Officer may approve an award to an offeror other than the | ||||||
| 3 | highest-ranked offeror. | ||||||
| 4 | For the purposes of this subsection (e-5): | ||||||
| 5 | "Manager" means a person who controls or administers | ||||||
| 6 | all or part of a company or similar organization. | ||||||
| 7 | "Minorities" has the same meaning as "minority person" | ||||||
| 8 | under Section 2 of the Business Enterprise for Minorities, | ||||||
| 9 | Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. | ||||||
| 10 | "Persons with disabilities" has the same meaning as | ||||||
| 11 | "person with a disability" under Section 2 of the Business | ||||||
| 12 | Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with | ||||||
| 13 | Disabilities Act. | ||||||
| 14 | "Senior executive" means the chief executive officer, | ||||||
| 15 | chief operating officer, chief financial officer, or | ||||||
| 16 | anyone else in charge of a principal business unit or | ||||||
| 17 | function. | ||||||
| 18 | "Veteran" means a member of the Armed Forces of the | ||||||
| 19 | United States, a member of the Illinois National Guard, or | ||||||
| 20 | a member of any reserve component of the Armed Forces of | ||||||
| 21 | the United States. | ||||||
| 22 | "Women" has the same meaning as "woman" under Section 2 | ||||||
| 23 | of the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and | ||||||
| 24 | Persons with Disabilities Act. | ||||||
| 25 | (f) Discussion with responsible offerors and revisions of | ||||||
| 26 | offers or
proposals. As provided in the
request for proposals | ||||||
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| 1 | and under rules, discussions
may be conducted with
responsible | ||||||
| 2 | offerors who submit offers or proposals determined to be
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| 3 | reasonably susceptible of being
selected for award for the | ||||||
| 4 | purpose of clarifying and assuring full
understanding of and
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| 5 | responsiveness to the solicitation requirements. Those | ||||||
| 6 | offerors
shall be accorded fair and equal
treatment with | ||||||
| 7 | respect to any opportunity for discussion and
revision of | ||||||
| 8 | proposals. Revisions
may be permitted after submission and | ||||||
| 9 | before award for the
purpose of obtaining best and final
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| 10 | offers. In conducting discussions there shall be no disclosure | ||||||
| 11 | of
any information derived from
proposals submitted by | ||||||
| 12 | competing offerors.
If information is disclosed to any offeror, | ||||||
| 13 | it shall be
provided to all competing offerors.
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| 14 | (g) Award. Awards shall be made to the responsible offeror
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| 15 | whose proposal is
determined in writing to be the most | ||||||
| 16 | advantageous to the State,
taking into consideration price and | ||||||
| 17 | the evaluation factors set forth in the request for proposals.
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| 18 | The contract file shall contain
the basis on which the award is
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| 19 | made.
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| 20 | (Source: P.A. 100-43, eff. 8-9-17.)
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| 21 | (30 ILCS 500/20-60) | ||||||
| 22 | Sec. 20-60. Duration of contracts. | ||||||
| 23 | (a) Maximum duration. A contract may be entered into for
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| 24 | any period of time deemed
to be in the best interests of the | ||||||
| 25 | State but not
exceeding 10 years inclusive, beginning January | ||||||
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| 1 | 1, 2010, of proposed contract renewals. Third parties may lease | ||||||
| 2 | State-owned dark fiber networks for any period of time deemed | ||||||
| 3 | to be in the best interest of the State, but not exceeding 20 | ||||||
| 4 | years. The length of
a lease for real property or capital | ||||||
| 5 | improvements shall be in
accordance with the provisions of
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| 6 | Section 40-25. The length of energy conservation program | ||||||
| 7 | contracts or energy savings contracts or leases shall be in | ||||||
| 8 | accordance with the provisions of Section 25-45. A contract for | ||||||
| 9 | bond or mortgage insurance awarded by the Illinois Housing | ||||||
| 10 | Development Authority, however, may be entered into for any | ||||||
| 11 | period of time less than or equal to the maximum period of time | ||||||
| 12 | that the subject bond or mortgage may remain outstanding.
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| 13 | (b) Subject to appropriation. All contracts made or entered
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| 14 | into shall recite that they are
subject to termination and | ||||||
| 15 | cancellation in any year for which the
General Assembly fails | ||||||
| 16 | to make
an appropriation to make payments under the terms of | ||||||
| 17 | the contract. | ||||||
| 18 | (c) The chief procurement officer shall file a proposed | ||||||
| 19 | extension or renewal of a contract with the Procurement Policy | ||||||
| 20 | Board prior to entering into any extension or renewal if the | ||||||
| 21 | cost associated with the extension or renewal exceeds $249,999. | ||||||
| 22 | The Procurement Policy Board may object to the proposed | ||||||
| 23 | extension or renewal within 30 calendar days and require a | ||||||
| 24 | hearing before the Board prior to entering into the extension | ||||||
| 25 | or renewal. If the Procurement Policy Board does not object | ||||||
| 26 | within 30 calendar days or takes affirmative action to | ||||||
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| 1 | recommend the extension or renewal, the chief procurement | ||||||
| 2 | officer may enter into the extension or renewal of a contract. | ||||||
| 3 | This subsection does not apply to any emergency procurement, | ||||||
| 4 | any procurement under Article 40, or any procurement exempted | ||||||
| 5 | by Section 1-10(b) of this Code. If any State agency contract | ||||||
| 6 | is paid for in whole or in part with federal-aid funds, grants, | ||||||
| 7 | or loans and the provisions of this subsection would result in | ||||||
| 8 | the loss of those federal-aid funds, grants, or loans, then the | ||||||
| 9 | contract is exempt from the provisions of this subsection in | ||||||
| 10 | order to remain eligible for those federal-aid funds, grants, | ||||||
| 11 | or loans, and the State agency shall file notice of this | ||||||
| 12 | exemption with the Procurement Policy Board prior to entering | ||||||
| 13 | into the proposed extension or renewal. Nothing in this | ||||||
| 14 | subsection permits a chief procurement officer to enter into an | ||||||
| 15 | extension or renewal in violation of subsection (a). By August | ||||||
| 16 | 1 each year, the Procurement Policy Board shall file a report | ||||||
| 17 | with the General Assembly identifying for the previous fiscal | ||||||
| 18 | year (i) the proposed extensions or renewals that were filed | ||||||
| 19 | with the Board and whether the Board objected and (ii) the | ||||||
| 20 | contracts exempt from this subsection. | ||||||
| 21 | (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of | ||||||
| 22 | this Section, the Department of Innovation and Technology may | ||||||
| 23 | enter into leases for dark fiber networks for any period of | ||||||
| 24 | time deemed to be in the best interests of the State but not | ||||||
| 25 | exceeding 20 years inclusive. The Department of Innovation and | ||||||
| 26 | Technology may lease dark fiber networks from third parties | ||||||
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| 1 | only for the primary purpose of providing services to (i) to | ||||||
| 2 | the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney | ||||||
| 3 | General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, or Treasurer and | ||||||
| 4 | State agencies, as defined under Section 5-15 of the Civil | ||||||
| 5 | Administrative Code of Illinois or (ii) for anchor | ||||||
| 6 | institutions, as defined in Section 7 of the Illinois Century | ||||||
| 7 | Network Act. Dark fiber network lease contracts shall be | ||||||
| 8 | subject to all other provisions of this Code and any applicable | ||||||
| 9 | rules or requirements, including, but not limited to, | ||||||
| 10 | publication of lease solicitations, use of standard State | ||||||
| 11 | contracting terms and conditions, and approval of vendor | ||||||
| 12 | certifications and financial disclosures. | ||||||
| 13 | (e) As used in this Section, "dark fiber network" means a | ||||||
| 14 | network of fiber optic cables laid but currently unused by a | ||||||
| 15 | third party that the third party is leasing for use as network | ||||||
| 16 | infrastructure. | ||||||
| 17 | (f) No vendor shall be eligible for renewal of a contract | ||||||
| 18 | when that vendor has failed to meet the Business Enterprise | ||||||
| 19 | Program spending goal specified under the contract, and that | ||||||
| 20 | vendor is not otherwise excused from compliance under the | ||||||
| 21 | Business Enterprise Program Act. This subsection (f) does not | ||||||
| 22 | apply to the renewal of contracts for construction or | ||||||
| 23 | construction-related services. | ||||||
| 24 | (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-611, eff. 7-20-18; | ||||||
| 25 | revised 10-11-18.)
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| 1 | (30 ILCS 500/50-85 new) | ||||||
| 2 | Sec. 50-85. Diversity training; report. | ||||||
| 3 | (a) All employees with purchasing power or the power to | ||||||
| 4 | award proposals under the Code, including State Procurement | ||||||
| 5 | Officers, Chief Procurement Officers, Agency Procurement | ||||||
| 6 | Officers, and applicable supportive personnel and staff, as | ||||||
| 7 | determined by the Chief Procurement Officer, shall complete | ||||||
| 8 | annual training for diversity and inclusion as prescribed by | ||||||
| 9 | the Chief Procurement Officer in consultation with the Business | ||||||
| 10 | Enterprise Council. | ||||||
| 11 | (b) Each Chief Procurement Officer shall submit to the | ||||||
| 12 | General Assembly an annual report that summarizes the diversity | ||||||
| 13 | training that was completed by personnel of his or her office | ||||||
| 14 | during the previous year, and lays out the plan for the | ||||||
| 15 | diversity training programs in the coming year. The report to | ||||||
| 16 | the General Assembly shall be filed with the Clerk of the House | ||||||
| 17 | of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate in | ||||||
| 18 | electronic form only, in the manner that the Clerk and the | ||||||
| 19 | Secretary shall direct. | ||||||
| 20 | Each Chief Procurement Officer shall also submit to the | ||||||
| 21 | Executive Ethics Commission an annual report detailing the | ||||||
| 22 | current status of his or her diversity efforts, and an action | ||||||
| 23 | plan to increase diversity within his or her office.
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| 24 | Section 10. The Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, | ||||||
| 25 | and Persons with
Disabilities Act is amended by changing | ||||||
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| 1 | Sections 4f and 6 as follows:
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| 2 | (30 ILCS 575/4f) | ||||||
| 3 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on June 30, 2020) | ||||||
| 4 | Sec. 4f. Award of State contracts. | ||||||
| 5 | (1) It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the | ||||||
| 6 | State of Illinois to promote and encourage each State agency | ||||||
| 7 | and public institution of higher education to use businesses | ||||||
| 8 | owned by minorities, women, and persons with disabilities in | ||||||
| 9 | the area of goods and services, including, but not limited to, | ||||||
| 10 | insurance services, investment management services, | ||||||
| 11 | information technology services, accounting services, | ||||||
| 12 | architectural and engineering services, and legal services. | ||||||
| 13 | Furthermore, each State agency and public institution of higher | ||||||
| 14 | education shall utilize such firms to the greatest extent | ||||||
| 15 | feasible within the bounds of financial and fiduciary prudence, | ||||||
| 16 | and take affirmative steps to remove any barriers to the full | ||||||
| 17 | participation of such firms in the procurement and contracting | ||||||
| 18 | opportunities afforded. | ||||||
| 19 | (a) When a State agency or public institution of higher | ||||||
| 20 | education, other than a community college, awards a | ||||||
| 21 | contract for insurance services, for each State agency or | ||||||
| 22 | public institution of higher education, it shall be the | ||||||
| 23 | aspirational goal to use insurance brokers owned by | ||||||
| 24 | minorities, women, and persons with disabilities as | ||||||
| 25 | defined by this Act, for not less than 20% of the total | ||||||
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| 1 | annual premiums or fees. | ||||||
| 2 | (b) When a State agency or public institution of higher | ||||||
| 3 | education, other than a community college, awards a | ||||||
| 4 | contract for investment services, for each State agency or | ||||||
| 5 | public institution of higher education, it shall be the | ||||||
| 6 | aspirational goal to use emerging investment managers | ||||||
| 7 | owned by minorities, women, and persons with disabilities | ||||||
| 8 | as defined by this Act, for not less than 20% of the total | ||||||
| 9 | funds under management. Furthermore, it is the | ||||||
| 10 | aspirational goal that not less than 20% of the direct | ||||||
| 11 | asset managers of the State funds be minorities, women, and | ||||||
| 12 | persons with disabilities. | ||||||
| 13 | (c) When a State agency or public institution of higher | ||||||
| 14 | education, other than a community college, awards | ||||||
| 15 | contracts for information technology services, accounting | ||||||
| 16 | services, architectural and engineering services, and | ||||||
| 17 | legal services, for each State agency and public | ||||||
| 18 | institution of higher education, it shall be the | ||||||
| 19 | aspirational goal to use such firms owned by minorities, | ||||||
| 20 | women, and persons with disabilities as defined by this Act | ||||||
| 21 | and lawyers who are minorities, women, and persons with | ||||||
| 22 | disabilities as defined by this Act, for not less than 20% | ||||||
| 23 | of the total dollar amount of State contracts. In the case | ||||||
| 24 | of State contracts for architectural and engineering | ||||||
| 25 | services, the provisions of this subsection (c) requiring a | ||||||
| 26 | portion of State contracts to be awarded to businesses | ||||||
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| 1 | owned and controlled by persons with disabilities do not | ||||||
| 2 | apply. | ||||||
| 3 | (d) When a community college awards a contract for | ||||||
| 4 | insurance services, investment services, information | ||||||
| 5 | technology services, accounting services, architectural | ||||||
| 6 | and engineering services, and legal services, it shall be | ||||||
| 7 | the aspirational goal of each community college to use | ||||||
| 8 | businesses owned by minorities, women, and persons with | ||||||
| 9 | disabilities as defined in this Act for not less than 20% | ||||||
| 10 | of the total amount spent on contracts for these services | ||||||
| 11 | collectively. When a community college awards contracts | ||||||
| 12 | for investment services, contracts awarded to investment | ||||||
| 13 | managers who are not emerging investment managers as | ||||||
| 14 | defined in this Act shall not be considered businesses | ||||||
| 15 | owned by minorities, women, or persons with disabilities | ||||||
| 16 | for the purposes of this Section. | ||||||
| 17 | (e) When a State agency or public institution of higher | ||||||
| 18 | education issues requests for proposals or solicitations, | ||||||
| 19 | including requests and solicitations for contracts with | ||||||
| 20 | group purchasing organizations, that fall within a service | ||||||
| 21 | or product offering that has a history of disparate awards | ||||||
| 22 | to a class of business owners that are underrepresented in | ||||||
| 23 | contract awards, it shall be the aspirational goal to use | ||||||
| 24 | service or product providers owned by minorities, women, | ||||||
| 25 | and persons with disabilities as defined by this Act for | ||||||
| 26 | not less than 20% of the total dollar amount of State | ||||||
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| 1 | contracts. If the State agency or public institution of | ||||||
| 2 | higher education believes that it may be difficult to | ||||||
| 3 | achieve the minimum 20% aspirational goal, then it may | ||||||
| 4 | appear before the Council to seek a modification of the | ||||||
| 5 | goal requirement provided under this paragraph (e). | ||||||
| 6 | If any State agency or public institution of higher | ||||||
| 7 | education contract is eligible to be paid for or | ||||||
| 8 | reimbursed, in whole or in part, with federal-aid funds, | ||||||
| 9 | grants, or loans, and the provisions of this paragraph (e) | ||||||
| 10 | would result in the loss of those federal-aid funds, | ||||||
| 11 | grants, or loans, then the contract is exempt from the | ||||||
| 12 | provisions of this paragraph (e) in order to remain | ||||||
| 13 | eligible for those federal-aid funds, grants, or loans. | ||||||
| 14 | (2) As used in this Section: | ||||||
| 15 | "Accounting services" means the measurement, | ||||||
| 16 | processing and communication of financial information | ||||||
| 17 | about economic entities including, but is not limited to, | ||||||
| 18 | financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, | ||||||
| 19 | cost containment and auditing services, taxation and | ||||||
| 20 | accounting information systems. | ||||||
| 21 | "Architectural and engineering services" means | ||||||
| 22 | professional services of an architectural or engineering | ||||||
| 23 | nature, or incidental services, that members of the | ||||||
| 24 | architectural and engineering professions, and individuals | ||||||
| 25 | in their employ, may logically or justifiably perform, | ||||||
| 26 | including studies, investigations, surveying and mapping, | ||||||
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| 1 | tests, evaluations, consultations, comprehensive planning, | ||||||
| 2 | program management, conceptual designs, plans and | ||||||
| 3 | specifications, value engineering, construction phase | ||||||
| 4 | services, soils engineering, drawing reviews, preparation | ||||||
| 5 | of operating and maintenance manuals, and other related | ||||||
| 6 | services. | ||||||
| 7 | "Emerging investment manager" means an investment | ||||||
| 8 | manager or claims consultant having assets under | ||||||
| 9 | management below $10 billion or otherwise adjudicating | ||||||
| 10 | claims. | ||||||
| 11 | "Information technology services" means, but is not | ||||||
| 12 | limited to, specialized technology-oriented solutions by | ||||||
| 13 | combining the processes and functions of software, | ||||||
| 14 | hardware, networks, telecommunications, web designers, | ||||||
| 15 | cloud developing resellers, and electronics. | ||||||
| 16 | "Insurance broker" means an insurance brokerage firm, | ||||||
| 17 | claims administrator, or both, that procures, places all | ||||||
| 18 | lines of insurance, or administers claims with annual | ||||||
| 19 | premiums or fees of at least $5,000,000 but not more than | ||||||
| 20 | $10,000,000. | ||||||
| 21 | "Legal services" means work performed by a lawyer | ||||||
| 22 | including, but not limited to, contracts in anticipation of | ||||||
| 23 | litigation, enforcement actions, or investigations. | ||||||
| 24 | (3) Each State agency and public institution of higher | ||||||
| 25 | education shall adopt policies that identify its plan and | ||||||
| 26 | implementation procedures for increasing the use of service | ||||||
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| 1 | firms owned by minorities, women, and persons with | ||||||
| 2 | disabilities. | ||||||
| 3 | (4) Except as provided in subsection (5), the Council shall | ||||||
| 4 | file no later than March 1 of each year an annual report to the | ||||||
| 5 | Governor and the General Assembly. The report to the General | ||||||
| 6 | Assembly shall be filed with the Clerk of the House of | ||||||
| 7 | Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate in electronic | ||||||
| 8 | form only, in the manner that the Clerk and the Secretary shall | ||||||
| 9 | direct The report filed with the General Assembly shall be | ||||||
| 10 | filed as required in Section 3.1 of the General Assembly | ||||||
| 11 | Organization Act. This report shall: (i) identify the service | ||||||
| 12 | firms used by each State agency and public institution of | ||||||
| 13 | higher education, (ii) identify the actions it has undertaken | ||||||
| 14 | to increase the use of service firms owned by minorities, | ||||||
| 15 | women, and persons with disabilities, including encouraging | ||||||
| 16 | non-minority-owned firms to use other service firms owned by | ||||||
| 17 | minorities, women, and persons with disabilities as | ||||||
| 18 | subcontractors when the opportunities arise, (iii) state any | ||||||
| 19 | recommendations made by the Council to each State agency and | ||||||
| 20 | public institution of higher education to increase | ||||||
| 21 | participation by the use of service firms owned by minorities, | ||||||
| 22 | women, and persons with disabilities, and (iv) include the | ||||||
| 23 | following: | ||||||
| 24 | (A) For insurance services: the names of the insurance | ||||||
| 25 | brokers or claims consultants used, the total of risk | ||||||
| 26 | managed by each State agency and public institution of | ||||||
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| 1 | higher education by insurance brokers, the total | ||||||
| 2 | commissions, fees paid, or both, the lines or insurance | ||||||
| 3 | policies placed, and the amount of premiums placed; and the | ||||||
| 4 | percentage of the risk managed by insurance brokers, the | ||||||
| 5 | percentage of total commission, fees paid, or both, the | ||||||
| 6 | lines or insurance policies placed, and the amount of | ||||||
| 7 | premiums placed with each by the insurance brokers owned by | ||||||
| 8 | minorities, women, and persons with disabilities by each | ||||||
| 9 | State agency and public institution of higher education. | ||||||
| 10 | (B) For investment management services: the names of | ||||||
| 11 | the investment managers used, the total funds under | ||||||
| 12 | management of investment managers; the total commissions, | ||||||
| 13 | fees paid, or both; the total and percentage of funds under | ||||||
| 14 | management of emerging investment managers owned by | ||||||
| 15 | minorities, women, and persons with disabilities, | ||||||
| 16 | including the total and percentage of total commissions, | ||||||
| 17 | fees paid, or both by each State agency and public | ||||||
| 18 | institution of higher education. | ||||||
| 19 | (C) The names of service firms, the percentage and | ||||||
| 20 | total dollar amount paid for professional services by | ||||||
| 21 | category by each State agency and public institution of | ||||||
| 22 | higher education. | ||||||
| 23 | (D) The names of service firms, the percentage and | ||||||
| 24 | total dollar amount paid for services by category to firms | ||||||
| 25 | owned by minorities, women, and persons with disabilities | ||||||
| 26 | by each State agency and public institution of higher | ||||||
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| 1 | education. | ||||||
| 2 | (E) The total number of contracts awarded for services | ||||||
| 3 | by category and the total number of contracts awarded to | ||||||
| 4 | firms owned by minorities, women, and persons with | ||||||
| 5 | disabilities by each State agency and public institution of | ||||||
| 6 | higher education. | ||||||
| 7 | (5) For community college districts, the Business | ||||||
| 8 | Enterprise Council shall only report the following information | ||||||
| 9 | for each community college district: (i) the name of the | ||||||
| 10 | community colleges in the district, (ii) the name and contact | ||||||
| 11 | information of a person at each community college appointed to | ||||||
| 12 | be the single point of contact for vendors owned by minorities, | ||||||
| 13 | women, or persons with disabilities, (iii) the policy of the | ||||||
| 14 | community college district concerning certified vendors, (iv) | ||||||
| 15 | the certifications recognized by the community college | ||||||
| 16 | district for determining whether a business is owned or | ||||||
| 17 | controlled by a minority, woman, or person with a disability, | ||||||
| 18 | (v) outreach efforts conducted by the community college | ||||||
| 19 | district to increase the use of certified vendors, (vi) the | ||||||
| 20 | total expenditures by the community college district in the | ||||||
| 21 | prior fiscal year in the divisions of work specified in | ||||||
| 22 | paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subsection (1) of this Section | ||||||
| 23 | and the amount paid to certified vendors in those divisions of | ||||||
| 24 | work, and (vii) the total number of contracts entered into for | ||||||
| 25 | the divisions of work specified in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) | ||||||
| 26 | of subsection (1) of this Section and the total number of | ||||||
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| 1 | contracts awarded to certified vendors providing these | ||||||
| 2 | services to the community college district. The Business | ||||||
| 3 | Enterprise Council shall not make any utilization reports under | ||||||
| 4 | this Act for community college districts for Fiscal Year 2015 | ||||||
| 5 | and Fiscal Year 2016, but shall make the report required by | ||||||
| 6 | this subsection for Fiscal Year 2017 and for each fiscal year | ||||||
| 7 | thereafter. The Business Enterprise Council shall report the | ||||||
| 8 | information in items (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) of this | ||||||
| 9 | subsection beginning in September of 2016. The Business | ||||||
| 10 | Enterprise Council may collect the data needed to make its | ||||||
| 11 | report from the Illinois Community College Board. | ||||||
| 12 | (6) The status of the utilization of services shall be | ||||||
| 13 | discussed at each of the regularly scheduled Business | ||||||
| 14 | Enterprise Council meetings. Time shall be allotted for the | ||||||
| 15 | Council to receive, review, and discuss the progress of the use | ||||||
| 16 | of service firms owned by minorities, women, and persons with | ||||||
| 17 | disabilities by each State agency and public institution of | ||||||
| 18 | higher education; and any evidence regarding past or present | ||||||
| 19 | racial, ethnic, or gender-based discrimination which directly | ||||||
| 20 | impacts a State agency or public institution of higher | ||||||
| 21 | education contracting with such firms. If after reviewing such | ||||||
| 22 | evidence the Council finds that there is or has been such | ||||||
| 23 | discrimination against a specific group, race or sex, the | ||||||
| 24 | Council shall establish sheltered markets or adjust existing | ||||||
| 25 | sheltered markets tailored to address the Council's specific | ||||||
| 26 | findings for the divisions of work specified in paragraphs (a), | ||||||
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| 1 | (b), and (c) of subsection (1) of this Section.
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| 2 | (Source: P.A. 99-462, eff. 8-25-15; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16; | ||||||
| 3 | 100-391, eff. 8-25-17.)
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| 4 | (30 ILCS 575/6) (from Ch. 127, par. 132.606)
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| 5 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on June 30, 2020)
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| 6 | Sec. 6. Agency compliance plans. Each State agency and | ||||||
| 7 | public institutions of higher education
under the
jurisdiction | ||||||
| 8 | of this Act
shall file
with the Council an annual compliance | ||||||
| 9 | plan which shall outline the
goals of the State agency or | ||||||
| 10 | public institutions of higher education for contracting with | ||||||
| 11 | businesses owned by minorities, women, and
persons with | ||||||
| 12 | disabilities for the then current fiscal
year, the manner in | ||||||
| 13 | which the agency intends to reach these goals and a
timetable | ||||||
| 14 | for reaching these goals. The Council shall review and approve
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| 15 | the plan of each State agency and public institutions of higher | ||||||
| 16 | education and may reject any
plan that does
not comply with
| ||||||
| 17 | this Act or any rules or regulations promulgated pursuant to | ||||||
| 18 | this Act.
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| 19 | (a) The compliance plan shall also include, but not be | ||||||
| 20 | limited to, (1) a
policy statement, signed by the State agency | ||||||
| 21 | or public institution of higher education head,
expressing a
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| 22 | commitment to
encourage the use of
businesses owned by
| ||||||
| 23 | minorities, women, and persons with disabilities, (2) the | ||||||
| 24 | designation of
the liaison
officer
provided for in Section 5 of | ||||||
| 25 | this Act, (3) procedures to distribute to
potential contractors | ||||||
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| 1 | and vendors the list of all businesses legitimately classified | ||||||
| 2 | as businesses owned by
minorities, women, and persons with | ||||||
| 3 | disabilities and so certified under
this Act, (4) procedures to | ||||||
| 4 | set
separate contract goals on specific prime contracts and | ||||||
| 5 | purchase orders
with subcontracting possibilities based upon | ||||||
| 6 | the type of work or services
and subcontractor availability, | ||||||
| 7 | (5) procedures to assure that contractors
and vendors make good | ||||||
| 8 | faith efforts to meet contract goals, (6) procedures
for | ||||||
| 9 | contract goal exemption, modification and waiver, and (7) the | ||||||
| 10 | delineation
of separate contract goals for businesses owned by | ||||||
| 11 | minorities, women, and persons with
disabilities.
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| 12 | (b) Approval of the compliance plans shall include such | ||||||
| 13 | delegation of
responsibilities to the requesting State agency | ||||||
| 14 | or public institution of higher education as
the Council
deems | ||||||
| 15 | necessary
and appropriate to fulfill the purpose of this Act. | ||||||
| 16 | Such responsibilities
may include, but need not be limited to | ||||||
| 17 | those outlined in subsections (1),
(2) and (3) of Section 7, | ||||||
| 18 | paragraph (a) of Section 8, and Section 8a of this Act.
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| 19 | (c) Each State agency and public institution of higher | ||||||
| 20 | education under the jurisdiction of
this Act
shall
file with | ||||||
| 21 | the Council an annual report of its utilization of businesses | ||||||
| 22 | owned
by minorities, women, and persons with disabilities | ||||||
| 23 | during the preceding fiscal year including lapse period | ||||||
| 24 | spending
and a mid-fiscal year report of its utilization to | ||||||
| 25 | date for the then current
fiscal year. The reports shall | ||||||
| 26 | include a self-evaluation of the efforts of the
State agency or | ||||||
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| 1 | public institution of higher education to meet its goals under | ||||||
| 2 | the
Act, as well as a plan to increase the diversity
of the | ||||||
| 3 | vendors engaged in contracts with the State agency of public | ||||||
| 4 | institution of higher education, with a particular focus
on | ||||||
| 5 | those most underrepresented in contract awards.
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| 6 | (d) Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in this | ||||||
| 7 | Act,
any State
agency or public institution of higher education | ||||||
| 8 | which administers a construction program,
for which federal law | ||||||
| 9 | or regulations establish standards and procedures for
the | ||||||
| 10 | utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses and | ||||||
| 11 | disadvantaged businesses,
shall implement a disadvantaged | ||||||
| 12 | business enterprise program to include minority-owned and | ||||||
| 13 | women-owned businesses and disadvantaged businesses, using
the | ||||||
| 14 | federal
standards and procedures for the establishment of goals | ||||||
| 15 | and
utilization procedures for the State-funded, as well as the | ||||||
| 16 | federally
assisted, portions of the program. In such cases, | ||||||
| 17 | these goals shall not
exceed those established pursuant to the | ||||||
| 18 | relevant federal statutes or
regulations.
Notwithstanding the | ||||||
| 19 | provisions of Section 8b, the Illinois Department of
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| 20 | Transportation is authorized to establish sheltered markets | ||||||
| 21 | for the
State-funded portions of the program consistent with | ||||||
| 22 | federal law and
regulations.
Additionally, a compliance plan | ||||||
| 23 | which is filed by such State
agency or public institution of | ||||||
| 24 | higher education pursuant to this Act, which incorporates
| ||||||
| 25 | equivalent terms and
conditions of its federally-approved | ||||||
| 26 | compliance plan, shall be deemed
approved under this Act.
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| 1 | (Source: P.A. 99-462, eff. 8-25-15; 100-391, eff. 8-25-17.)".
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