Requires state agency and authority public works contracts to include a clause authorizing contractors to recover reasonable damages for delay under limited circumstances.
Requires state agencies that issue requests for proposals to provide notification to elected officials for requests for proposals for projects in excess of ten million dollars.
Provides that the director of the division of minority and women's business development shall establish a procedure enabling the office to grant temporary certification to minority and women-owned business enterprise applicants which attest in the certification application that the business enterprise is intending to participate in the medical cannabis or adult-use cannabis industries.
Directs contracting state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase participation of minority- and women-owned businesses with respect to state contracts and subcontracts which includes an analyses of the use of discretionary buying.
Relates to requiring agencies to provide unsuccessful bidders that are certified minority- and women-owned business enterprises with a written statement of the completion of the procurement selection process and that such enterprise was not selected.
Relates to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or critical need; changes such maximum from three hundred employees to three hundred employees who work thirty or more hours per week over the period of fifty-two weeks for a total of 1,560 hours worked.
Clarifies the eligibility of an employment agency for status as a small business for division of minority and women's business development programs by changing the basis from number of employees to annual receipts.
Establishes procurement goals that certain percentages of all food and food products purchased by state agencies shall be New York state food products.
Encourages the participation of minority- and women-owned business enterprises in state contracts by avoiding unnecessary and unjustified bundling of contract requirements that preclude minority- and women-owned business participation.
Requires contracting agencies to contact minority and women-owned business enterprises when such enterprise is listed on a utilization plan and when a contract is awarded; mandates that the prime contractor use such enterprise identified on the utilization plan, unless such enterprise cannot perform or is no longer state certified.
Relates to RFPs for gun violence reduction; provides that any state agency that issues an RFP relating to gun violence reduction shall establish a coordination plan including all awardees; requires that such coordination plans shall be in a form as prescribed by the department of state; requires that at a minimum, such coordination plan shall help ensure complete coverage of the area for which such RFP is issued and minimize competition between awardees.
Relates to purchasing restrictions and investment of certain public funds in persons that contract to build a border wall; requires the commissioner to develop and publish, using credible information available to the public, a list of persons determined by the commissioner, that have contracted to build a border wall.