For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have the following respective definitions:
Includes all City of Chester contracting whether by the competitive bid process, single source contracting or other procurement processes and whether or not done in conjunction with other governmental entities or public or private agencies.
Includes persons of the female gender.
Means:
A sole proprietorship where the sole proprietor is a woman; or
A business corporation where 51% of the interests in such corporation are beneficially owned by women; or
A partnership where 51% of the partnership interests in such partnership are owned by women; or
Any other business or professional entity where 51% of the interests are owned by women.
Mean a combination of contractors or firms performing a specific contract in which minority and/or female owned businesses participate in the net profits or net loss; and
Mean venture partnerships, other multiple firm arrangements and sub-contracting in which 50% of the effort excluding the cost of materials, goods and supplies shall be with minority and/or female owned firms;
None of the definitions of ownership expressed in the definitions of "minority-owned business" and "female-owned business" shall preclude or exclude joint ventures partnerships, and any other joint or multiple firm arrangement from obtaining any benefit under this article so long as:
A minority and/or female owned business can demonstrate substantial benefit derived from such an arrangement; and
The minority and/or female owned participant is substantially involved in all phases of the contract including bidding, planning, staffing and daily management; and
Such an arrangement is customary.
Means:
A sole proprietorship where the sole proprietor is a minority person; or
A business corporation where 51% of the interests in such corporation are beneficially owned by minority person(s); or
A partnership where 51% of the partnership interests in such partnership are beneficially owned by minority person(s); or
Any other business or professional entity where 51% of the interests are beneficially owned by minority person(s).
Includes: Black Americans; Hispanic Americans; Native Americans (American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts or Native Hawaiians); Asian Pacific Americans (persons with origins from Japan, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, Samoa, Guam, U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Laos, Cambodia or Taiwan).
Means a process whereby contracts or sub-contracts are designated before solicitation of bids for limited competition from minority and/or female owned businesses on either a negotiated or competitive bid basis.
Means the specific allocation of work by a minority and/or female owned business as prime contractor to other contractors for specific tasks to be performed thereunder or the allocation of work by a majority owned business to a minority and/or female owned business as sub-contractor.
None of the definitions expressed in the definitions of "minority-owned business" and "female-owned business" shall preclude or exclude sub-contracting so long as:
The minority and/or female owned contractor perform at least 50% of the contracting effort, excluding the costs of materials, goods and supplies, with its own organization and resources; and
For contracts up to $1,000,000 the minority and/or female owned prime contractor shall perform at least 50% of the onsite work with its own force, excluding the cost of materials, goods, supplies and equipment; and
For contracts greater than $1,000,000 the minority and/or female owned contractor shall perform that portion of on-site work with its own work force which demonstrates that he or she is fiscally and managerially responsible as the prime or sub-contractor, demonstrates that it derives substantial benefit from the contract; and
The minority and/or female owned business either as prime or sub-contractor is substantially involved in all phases of the contract including bidding, planning, staffing and daily management.