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The NJ Schools Development Authority (SDA) is committed to providing opportunities for Small Business Enterprises (SBEs) to participate in the school construction program.
The Authority has an SBE program, which has a goal of ensuring that 25% of the total dollar value of every publicly advertised contract procured by the SDA is awarded to small businesses. Additionally, SDA advocates and encourages subcontract awards to Minority (MBE) and/or Women-Owned (WBE) firms on school projects.
Only businesses registered as SBEs by the NJ Department of Treasury are eligible to participate under the SDA Small Business Enterprise program.
The SDA Small Business Enterprise program’s 25% goal can be met in two ways:
1) The SDA may designate certain contracts as set-aside contracts open to bid by SBE-registered Prime Consultants, Contractors or Vendors only. These contracts will be clearly identified in all bid advertisements as SBE set-aside contracts.
2) For all contracts (including set-aside contracts), prime consultants, prime contractors and prime vendors are required to award contracts totaling a minimum of 25% to registered SBE subcontractors/sub-consultants and/or sub-vendors.
Click here to see a list of Upcoming Contract Opportunities for all SDA projects.
The dollar value of the SBE set-aside contracts awarded by the SDA to prime contractors or consultants or vendors, and those associated subcontracts awarded to SBE subcontractors/sub-consultants and sub-vendors by these primes, are then totaled. This total is used to calculate whether the prime has met its minimum 25% SBE compliance goal, or demonstrated a substantiated good-faith effort to identify and consider available SBE subcontractors, sub-consultants and sub-vendors for participation in the projects it has been awarded.
You may access information regarding registered small businesses and certified minority and women-owned businesses by utilizing the SDA directory of contractors and consultants as well as the New Jersey Selective Assistance Vendor Information (NJSAVI) database.
SMWBE Contractor Training Program
The SMWBE Contractor Training Program enables small, minority and women-owned businesses to gain valuable knowledge on how to do business with the SDA. Participants receive instruction from SDA staff and subject matter experts on bidding, estimating, scheduling, budgeting, accounting, bonding and marketing. The 2 ½ hour classes are held one day per week for eight-weeks in the SDA’s Trenton and Newark Offices.
For more information, please contact Terrance Stokes at (609) 943-4632.
NJSAVI Database
NJSAVI is a database designed to assist small, minority and/or women-owned businesses that wish to do business with the State of New Jersey and the private sector. The database helps to identify businesses eligible for legislatively mandated state programs, such as the New Jersey Set-Aside Act, and aids in matching buyers and vendors for private contracting opportunities.
For more information on statewide listing of firms certified as small, woman and minority owned business enterprises and to learn more about the Standards of Eligibility to become registered as a "Small Business" contact the Business Services Call Center at 1-866-534-7789, or visit New Jersey’s business web portal: http://www.nj.gov/njbusiness/contracting
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