Socioeconomic Programs Status Page Five
• In-person Outreach Events: Civil Rights and Fair Practices held their third and final 2025 in- person event titled "Doing Business with the MDTA," on Thursday, September 24, 2025. In addition to hosting its quarterly outreach events, CRFP also attends other sponsored outreach events to further educate businesses that might benefit from participating in 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 continuing its division-wide effort to update its Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and general practices, increasing internal staff training, and establishing partnerships with other MDTA divisions for which its procedures and practices have an impact, or whose 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. • 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 automatically identify, 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. 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. • Identifying additional opportunities for MBE/DBE/VSBE participation: Evaluating the extra work authorization (EWA) and supplemental agreement (SA) process to ensure maximization of goal attainment is considered with all additional work. We are working internally with our Office of Engineering and Construction to identify these opportunities. In addition, we are reviewing the feasibility of expanding third tier subcontracting more broadly and reducing the standard requirement that Primes self-perform 50% of the contract. Lastly, we will review our task order/open-end contracts to see if we can repackage tasks into contracts with more defined work items, more likely to achieve the contract goals.
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