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Iowa
DOT Program Provides Opportunities for Small Businesses
Posted 15 December
2009
Doing business with a large state agency like the Iowa Department of
Transportation (DOT) can be overwhelming to small business owners. In
an effort to include more Iowa companies in state contracts, the Iowa
DOT’s Jan. 20, 2010, bid letting will include the first of nearly two
dozen small business development contracts.
The first small business development contract will be for tree removal
and brush clearing from the right of way on Interstate 35 in Decatur
and Clarke counties. Roger Bierbaum, director of the Iowa DOT’s Office
of Contracts, said, “The new program will create small contracts of
less than $100,000 for projects that require little or no specialized
equipment. The first project, as an example, can be done with only a
chainsaw and a truck.”
For a company to qualify for bidding on a small business development
contract, it must meet the definition of a small business found in Iowa
Code section 15.102(6): “any enterprise located in this state, which is
operated for profit and under a single management, and which has either
fewer than 20 employees or an annual gross income of less than $4
million computed as the average of the three preceding fiscal years.”
There are no ethnic or gender requirements.
Bid lettings are typically held the third Tuesday of every month,
except for the January letting, which will be held the third Wednesday
due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Over the next four months,
the Iowa DOT has targeted three small business development contracts in
each of the agency’s six districts. In addition to tree removal, other
projects could include pavement patching, joint sealing, sidewalk
repair, replacing culvert aprons, and pavement painting. All projects
will be on the interstate or Primary Highway System.
Although performing Iowa DOT contracts entails some paperwork, none of
the projects being considered for small business development contracts
involves federal funds. Therefore, there will be no predetermined wage
requirements, no disadvantage business enterprise program requirements
or other federal contract requirements.
The Iowa DOT will not require completion of the department’s normal
prequalification form. However, contractors wanting to bid on the small
business development contracts will have to complete the Small Business
Certification form in which the contractor must certify that they meet
the Iowa Code definition of a small business.
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