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Equity in Public Purchasing and Contracting

On July 16, 2012 the ½ûÂþÌìÌà Board of Education adopted the Equity in Public Purchasing and Contracting (EPPC) Policy.

The EPPC Policy has three primary goals:

• Business Equity:  Provide greater professional, supplier, construction, and personal service opportunities to minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, and emerging small businesses.
  
  
• Workforce Equity:  Increase the numbers of women and minorities in the construction trades through apprenticeship opportunities on District construction contracts.
  
  
• Career Learning Equity:  Leverage our public contracting activity to expand the number of young people of color and young women participating in a wide variety of career learning programs.

Fiscal Year 2023-24 Equity in Purchasing and Contracting Annual Update

B2GNow Certified Business Utilization Tracking System

If you have a contract with ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ, you may be required to enter information into our Certified Business tracking system, allowing ½ûÂþÌìÌà to measure its progress toward our goal of increasing our contracting spend with minority-owned, women-owned, and emerging small businesses.  Contractors that are required to submit Certified Business utilization data can find the step-by-step instructions here:  Certified Business Utilization Tracking System

For questions about our EPPC programs or B2G Now, please contact ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's Certified Business Program Manager, Avtar Sunnivagora