25D - AGMT - PRE-PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING ANALYSIS

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C. "Native Americans," which includes persons who are American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, or Native Hawaiians; d. "Asian-Pacific Americans," which includes persons whose origins are from Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Trust Territories of the Pacific, and the Northern Marianas; e. "Asian-Indian Americans," which includes persons whose origins are from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh; and f. Women, regardless of ethnicity or race. 4. "Owned and Controlled" means a business: (a) which is at least 51 percent owned by one or more "Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals" or, in the case of a publicly-owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more "Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals"; and (b) whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more such individuals. 5. "Manufacturer" means a firm that operates or maintains a factory or establishment that produces on the premises the materials or supplies obtained by the CONTRACTOR. 6. "Regular Dealer" means a firm that owns, operates or maintains a store, warehouse, or other establishment in which the materials or supplies required for the performance of the contract are bought, kept in stock, and regularly sold to the public in the usual course of business. The firm must engage in, as its principal business, and in its own name, the purchase and sale of the product in question. A regular dealer in such bulk items as steel, cement, gravel, stone and petroleum products need not keep such products in stock if it owns or operates distribution equipment. 7. "Other Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals" means those individuals who are citizens of the United States (or lawfully admitted permanent residents) and who, on a case-by-case basis, are determined by Small Business Administration or AUTHORITY to meet the social and economic disadvantage criteria described below. a. Social Disadvantage: The individual's social disadvantage must stem from his/her color, national origin, gender, physical handicap, long-term residence in an environment isolated from the mainstream of American society, or other similar cause beyond the individual's control. i. The individual must demonstrate that he/she has personally suffered social disadvantage. ii. The individual's social disadvantage must be rooted in treatment, which he/she has experienced in American society, not in other countries. iii The individual's social disadvantage must be chronic, longstanding and substantial, not fleeting or insignificant. iv. The individual's social disadvantage must have negatively affected his/her entry into and/or advancement in the business world. v. A determination of social disadvantage must be made before proceeding to make a determination of economic disadvantage. b. Economic Disadvantage i. The individual's ability to compete in the free enterprise system has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities, as compared to others in the same line of business and competitive market area that are not socially disadvantaged. ii. The following criteria will be considered when determining the degree of diminished credit and capital opportunities of a person claiming social and economic disadvantage: With respect to the individual: • availability of financing • bonding capability • availability of outside equity capital • available markets With respect to the individual and the business concern: • personal and business assets • personal and business net worth • personal and business income and profits 17 25D-46