Record #: O2017-3899   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 5/24/2017 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Budget and Government Operations
Final action: 6/28/2017
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Sections 2-92-337 and 2-92-586 to expand Business Enterprises for People with Disabilities Program
Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm, Villegas, Gilbert, O'Shea, Matthew J., Austin, Carrie M.
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 92 Dept. of Purchases, Contracts & Supplies
Attachments: 1. O2017-3899.pdf
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL MAYOR
May 24, 2017










TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO


Ladies and Gentlemen:

At the request of the Chief Procurement Officer and the Commissioner of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, I transmit herewith, together with Aldermen Villegas, O'Shea and Austin, an ordinance amending Chapter 2-92 of the Municipal Code to expand the Business Enterprises For People With Disabilities Program.

Your favorable consideration of this ordinance will be appreciated.

Very truly yours,




Mayor
ORDINANCE

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Section 2-92-337 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by inserting the language underscored and by deleting the language struck through, as follows:

2-92-337 Contracts - B.E.P.D. utilization as prime contractor or subcontractor.

(a) For purposes of this section only the following definitions apply:
"Business Enterprise owned or operated by People with Disabilities" or "B.E.P.D." has the same meaning ascribed to it in Section 2-92-586.
"Bid incentive" means an amount deducted, for bid evaluation purposes only, from the contract base bid in order to calculate the bid price to be used to evaluate the bid on a competitively bid contract.
"Construction project" has the same meaning ascribed to it in Section 2-92-335.

"Contract" means any contract, purchase order, construction project, or other agreement (other than a delegate agency contract or lease of real property or collective bargaining agreement) awarded by the city and whose cost is to be paid from funds belonging to or administered by the city.
"Contract base bid" means the total dollar amount a contractor bids on a contract without factoring any bid incentive or percentage reductions to the bid amount.
"Earned credit" means the amount of the bid incentive allocated to a contractor upon completion of a contract in which the contractor met o...

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