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The Company wiil Fairly evaluate potential vendors of supplies <br /> and/or services , or lessors oz facilities and/or equipment <br /> routinely reauired during the course of its business and will <br /> make every eifort to purchase said supplies and/or services, <br /> or to lease said facilities and/or equipment from qualified <br /> minority-owned (MBE) , women-owneci (WBE) , and small business <br /> (SBE) enterprise firms . <br /> In any event, �he Company will not discriminate on the basis <br /> of race, color, sex, religion, age, marital status, national <br /> origin or ancestry, veteran status or disability, or physical <br /> or mental handicap in its selection, evaluation, retention <br /> and/or business transactions with vendors, material suppliers, <br /> and/or facility or equipment leasing firms or agents . <br /> Further, the Company will strive to do business only with <br /> those finns and individuals that adhere to similar affinnative <br /> action policies and practices with their respective employees, <br /> suppliers, vendors and leasing firms or agents . <br /> Subcontracting Professional or Technical Services <br /> The Company will make every effort to seek out and employ <br /> qualified minority-owned (MBE? , women-owned (WBE) , and small <br /> business (SBE) enterprise firms as subcontractors to provide <br /> professional and technical services as are required due to the <br /> limitations of its own internal staff, expertise, or workload. <br /> The Company will also ensure that such firms are fairly <br /> evaluated and considered to be included as part of project <br /> consultant teams when the Company responds to Requests for <br /> Qualifications (RFQ) or Proposals (RFP) provided that said <br /> firms also adhere to similar affirmative action policies and <br /> practices with regard to their own business transactions and <br /> subcontracting procedures . <br /> When the Company is required by the terms of its prime <br /> contract to employ qualified minority-owned (MBE) , women-owned <br /> (WBE) , and small business enterprise (SBE) firms (or <br /> disadvantaged (DBE) enterprise firms in the aggregate sense) <br /> as subcontractors to provide professional and/or tecYuiical <br /> services, it will take steps as are necessary to : <br /> (1) Ensure that said DBE firm(s) are awarded and perform <br /> their specified percentage of the contracted work as a <br /> minimum. <br /> (2) Assist said DBE firm(s) with the scheduling, management, <br /> and if required, technical support aspects of their work <br /> to help ensure its successful completion in accordance <br /> with the terms of their subcontract and so as to be of <br /> benefit to the growth, development, and experience of the <br /> DBE firm(s) . <br /> N <br /> a <br /> Page 3 of 4 <br />