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o The contractor shall presume that socially and economically disadvantaged individuals include Black- Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian-Pacific Americans, Asian-Indian Americans and other minorities, or any individual found to be disadvantaged by the Administration pursuant to 8(a) of the Small Business Act. D. Utilization Of Service Disabled-Veteran, Veteran-Owned And Women-Owned Small Business Concerns It is the policy of Ceres to hire small business concerns and small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, veterans, and women. Service disabled veteran and women owned, as used in this clause, means businesses that are at least 51 percent owned by veterans, service disabled veterans or women who are United States citizens and who also control and operate the business. The contractor agrees to use its best efforts to give veteran, service disabled veteran, and women-owned small businesses the maximum practical opportunity to participate in subcontract awards to the fullest extent consistent with the efficient performance of this contract plan. E. Utilization Of Hubzone Small Business Concerns It is the policy of Ceres to hire HUBZone small business concerns. HUBZone small business concern means a small business concern that appears on the List of Quaiified HUBZone Small Business Concerns Maintained by the SBA. F. Ceres Plan Administrator And Duties The Ceres Corporate Small Business Plan Administrator is: o Tia Laurie Plan Administrator Ceres Environmental Services, Inc. 5590 Broadcast Court Suite 110 Sarasota, FL 34240 (800) 218-4424 tia.laurie@ceresenvironmental.com o Ms. Laurie's responsibilities include: · Identification, development, and maintenance of source lists of small, small disadvantaged, and women-owned small business concerns. Verifying the list of subcontract entities, or database, is properly maintained. · Develop outreach programs through advertising; broadcast fax solicitations; networking with local and national organizations such as AGC, applicable trade unions, Chambers of Commerce etc. · Ensuring the inclusion of targeted business concerns in all solicitations for services or products; and ensuring that all solicitations are structured to permit the maximum possible participation by targeted concerns. · Ensuring that certain solicitations our sources sought are restricted to SDB concerns (competitive basis ). · Ensuring the establishment and maintenance of records of all subcontract awards to ensure appropriate documentation of non-selection of bids submitted by targeted enterprises. · Ensuring the preparation and submittal of all compliance reports. · Maintaining records and measuring performance against established goals. · Advise, train, and foster project management personnel on the purposes of the SB Subcontracting Program. · To ensure any provided study or reports are formatted in a manner compliant with the contract or otherwise acceptable to the COR. · Encouraging all employees and subcontractors to attend off-site training courses offered by public and private entities in small business development and small business program goals. Arranging for the conduct of training for purchasing personnel regarding the intent and impact of Public Law Public Law 99-661, Section 1207 and Public Law 100-180, Section 806 on purchasing procedures. C~RBsS Tab 0 Technical Information Section D.3 Subcontracting Plan Page 3 of 9