Socioeconomic Programs Status Page Five
In addition to hosting its quarterly outreach events, CRFP also attends other sponsored outreach events to further educate businesses that might benefit from participating on contracts with MBE, DBE, VSBE, and CSB/SBR goals and/or designations how to participate on such contracts and share MDTA’s upcoming procurements/ contracting opportunities. • Increased Internal Training and Coordination: CRFP has enhanced its internal training and coordination efforts by undertaking a division-wide effort to update its Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and general practices, increase internal staff training, and establish partnerships with other MDTA divisions for which its procedures and practices have an impact, or their procedures and practices impact the operations of CRFP. These efforts are designed to increase productivity, improve the quality of compliance monitored by CRFP, and ensure that the MDTA continues to meet its regulatory requirements. o CRFP will begin coordinating partnership meeting with OEC leaders in July/August 2025. • Credit card purchases made with MBE, DBE, VSBE, and SBR vendors: CRFP is working with the Purchasing Card Program Administrator and the IT Solutions Administrator to develop a way to identify automatically, and track credit card transactions made with MBE, DBE, VSBE, and SBR vendors in the purchasing card system. This option would make compiling and reporting this data more manageable and efficient. This functionality within the purchasing card system would also help CRFP to identify the frequency with which cardholders make purchases using MBE, DBE, VSBE, and SBR vendors – thereby uncovering opportunities for additional training or recognition. CRFP is also working with the DOP to update the "Strive for Five" form to reference MBE and VSBE vendors. o Civil Rights and Fair Practices had several meetings with Finance, Procurement, and IT to discuss implementing an interface to the P-Card system from MDOT's MBE Directory and eMaryland Marketplace Advantage (eMMA) that would enable our P-Card system to identify MBEs/VSBE that are utilized on credit card purchases. The P-Card form (Strive for Five) will be updated to remind P-Card users to look for DBEs/MBEs/VSBEs/SBRs that can be utilized when making purchases. We have also met with the Division of Communications (DOC) to have our Small Procurement Training Sessions recorded so that they are available for MDTA staff. o CRFP and IT have ongoing project meetings to discuss the interface between MDTA's Maximo System and MDOT-TSO’s Office of Minority Business Enterprise MBE Directory Data to identify MBE/DBE firms on credit card purchases. It was established that there was a need for an MOU between TSO and MDTA to agree upon how director data can/will be integrated into the PRISM compliance system. The said MOU was established and sent to TSO for their review and approval. o As of June 2025, MDOT TSO and MDTA have both signed the needed MOU and is in the final stages of processing the agreement for execution.
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