DBE/ACDBE Participation in Joint Ventures - Metropolitan ...

Example 1 - continued
• Now, let us assume that the ACDBE partner is also assigned
the role of finding DBE vendors to be utilized by the business
and recruiting minority employees.
• These roles are activities included under broader categories -
Human Resources (HR) and Purchasing. HR is only one task
within the “Operations” category and purchasing is only one
task within the “Product” category. In addition, it is difficult,
if not impossible, to quantify the value of these tasks in terms
of their impact on gross receipts.
• An airport would not have sufficient data to approve the JV
for counting because the portion of the work to be performed
by the ACDBE is very difficult to quantify. The airport should,
in this case, request that the JV participants clarify the role of
the ACDBE.
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