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: Departments : Corporation Counsel : Human Relations

Human Relations Division

MISSION

To help ensure equal access and opportunity to all businesses that seek to provide goods and services to Wayne County - while fostering inclusion, diversity, integrity and encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit.

What we do:

Wayne County Human Relations Division is a business-certification agency, a tool for doing business with Wayne County. Earned business certifications may be applied as equalization credits in bid evaluations, based on a company's certification category, leveling the playing field for all businesses/vendors. The Division also serves as an investigation/enforcement unit in fair employment and discrimination complaints/violations pertaining to county contractors.

Explanation:

An offeror shall receive the equalization credit for each applicable category. The firm making the lowest evaluated offer, shall be deemed the lowest offeror.
In applying equalization credits, a Joint Venture shall not be considered a Mentoring Venture (vice versa), nor shall a Small Business Enterprise be considered an Expanding Business Enterprise (vice versa).
No business shall receive credits unless it has been certified by the Wayne County Human Relations Division before the bid-submission deadline.
Any offeror claiming entitlement/establishing eligibility to equalization credits shall agree to make available (to Wayne County) necessary records.
Upon applying any equalization credit, contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsible offerorthus evaluated.

County Based Enterprise Equalization Allowance Table