State contracts: disabled veteran business enterprise statewide participation goals: business utilization plan value.

Existing law establishes a 3% statewide participation goal for disabled veteran business enterprises for certain types of state contracts. Existing law requires an awarding department to award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder meeting specified statewide participation goals for disabled veteran business enterprises, and allows an awarding department to accept submission of a disabled veteran business enterprise utilization plan meeting certain requirements to meet this goal, as specified. This bill would delete the provisions allowing the awarding department to accept submission of a disabled veteran business enterprise utilization plan. The bill would instead specify that the statewide participation goal for disabled veteran business enterprises may be met by the business utilization plan value of a business utilization plan partner, as defined, established by payments between the partner and a disabled veteran business enterprise, as specified. The bill would require the Department of General Services to certify persons meeting certain requirements as a business utilization plan partner, as defined, and would require a business utilization plan partner and a disabled veteran business enterprise to report information relating to the business utilization plan value, as provided.