Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.66
Liaison Marianella Franklin
Submission Date Sept. 20, 2017
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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
OP-11: Sustainable Procurement

Status Score Responsible Party
-- 0.00 / 3.00 Alex Valdez
Dir of Procurement Management
Procurement Management

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UTRGV’s policies on sustainable purchasing work towards the sustainable development goal of responsible consumption by utilizing its purchasing power to advance the development of sustainable technologies and environmental stewardship.

Definitions

Historically Underutilized Business – a business enterprise, with its principal place of business in Texas, which is formed for the purpose of making a profit, and meets one of the following categories:

A corporation in which at least 51% of all classes of shares of stock or other equitable securities are owned by one or more persons from an economically disadvantaged group.
A sole proprietorship that is 100% owned by a person from an economically disadvantaged group.
A partnership in which at least 51% of the assets and interests in the partnership are owned by one or more persons from an economically disadvantaged group.
A joint venture in which each entity in the joint venture is a historically underutilized business.
A supplier contract between a historically underutilized business and a prime contractor under which the historically underutilized business is directly involved in the manufacture or distribution of the supplies or materials or otherwise warehouses and ships the supplies.
A business other than described in the bullets above, which is a legally recognized business organization under the laws of the State of Texas, provided that at least 51% of the assets and interest and 51% of any classes of stock and equitable securities are owned by one or more persons from an economically disadvantage group.
Economically Disadvantaged Group – include the following:

Black Americans – includes persons having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
Hispanic Americans – includes persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South Americans, or other Spanish or Portuguese culture or origin.
Asian Pacific Americans – includes persons whose origins are in Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Trust Territories of the Pacific, and the Northern Marianas, and Subcontinent Asian Americans which includes persons whose origins are from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan or Nepal.
Native Americans – includes persons who are American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, or Native Hawaiians.
American Women – includes all women of any ethnicity except American women specified in the bullets immediately above.
Commodities – materials, supplies, or equipment.

Professional Services – services procured under provisions of the Texas Government Code Sections 2254.001 – 2254.005.

Other Services – all services, other than construction and professional services, including consulting services procured under provisions of Texas Government Code Sections 2254.021 – 2254.040.

Construction – construction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of buildings, roads, highways, or grounds.

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