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5. RESOURCES EXHIBIT D A. The CUCP database includes the certified DBEs from all certifying agencies participating in the CUCP. If you believe a firm is certified that cannot be located on the database, please contact the Caltrans Office of Certification toll free number 1-866-810-6346 for assistance. Bidder/Proposer may call (916) 440-0539 for web or download assistance. B. Access the CUCP database from the Department of Transportation, Civil Rights, Business Enterprise Program website at: http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/bep/ . -Click on the link in the left menu titled Find a Certified Firm • Click on Query Form link, located in the first sentence • Click on Certified DBE's (UCP) located on the first line in the center of the page -Click on Click To Access DBE Query Form -Searches can be performed by one or more criteria -Follow instructions on the screen "Start Search," "Requery," "Civil Rights Home," and "Caltrans Home" links are located at the bottom of the query form C. How to Obtain a List of Certified DBEs without Internet Access DBE Directory: If you do not have Internet access, Caltrans also publishes a directory of certified DBE firms extracted from the on-line database. A copy of the directory of certified DBEs may be ordered from the Caltrans Division of Procurement and Contracts/Material and Distribution Branch/Publication Unit, 1900 Royal Oaks Drive, Sacramento, CA 95815, Telephone: (916) 445-3520. 6. MATERIALS OR SUPPLIES PURCHASED FROM DBEs COUNT TOWARDS DBE CREDIT, AND IF A DBE IS ALSO A UDBE, PURCHASES WILL COUNT TOWARDS THE UDBE GOAL UNDER THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: A. If the materials or supplies are obtained from a DBE manufacturer, count one hundred percent of the cost of the materials or supplies. A DBE manufacturer is a firm that operates or maintains a factory, or establishment that produces on the premises, the materials, supplies, articles, or equipment required under the Agreement and of the general character described by the specifications. B. If the materials or supplies are purchased from a DBE regular dealer, count sixty percent of the cost of the materials or supplies. A DBE regular dealer is a firm that owns, operates or maintains a store, warehouse, or other establishment in which the materials, supplies, articles or equipment of the general character described by the specifications and required under the Agreement are bought, kept in stock, and regularly sold or leased to the public in the usual course of business. To be a DBE regular dealer, the firm must be an established, regular business that engages, as its principal business and under its own name, in the purchase and sale or lease of the products in question. A person may be a DBE regular dealer in such bulk items as petroleum products, steel, cement, gravel, stone or asphalt without owning, operating or maintaining a place of business provided in this section. Page 40 of 48 19H-44