Maintaining Good Faith Efforts for the Current DBE Commitment

When a contractor is unable to meet the DBE commitment goals for a contract, the means and extent to which the contractor attempted to meet those goals and the reason those efforts did not succeed must be recorded as good faith efforts.

The Good Faith Effort tab on the Contract Current DBE Commitment Summary component contains an accordion list of all the recorded good faith efforts for the contract. Each row displays an Actions button and current values for the DBE Vendor and Contact Date fields. To maintain a good faith effort, expand the row to display all the available information. You can view or change the following information:

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If your agency uses external access, the information on this tab is read-only and is maintained by non-agency users.

If your agency does not use external access, you can click in a field and add, change, or delete information as required.

To add a new good faith effort for the contract, click the New button. The system adds a new row at the bottom of the list. All fields in the new row are blank. To save a new good faith effort, you must enter information in all fields that display a red asterisk. Record information in other fields as needed.

To delete a good faith effort, select Delete from the Actions menu on the good faith effort's row. The system shades the row gray to indicate it is marked for deletion. To reverse the delete action, click the Undo button.

When you are finished making changes to good faith efforts for the contract, click the Save button. The system displays a message to confirm that your changes were saved in the database.