NJ Selective Assistance Vendor Information NJ SAVI and Your Business New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth & Tou

1. NJ Selective Assistance Vendor Information NJ SAVI and Your Business New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth & Tourism Commission

2. The Set-Aside Program and the Commerce & Tourism Commission Working Together To Promote Growth • The Office of Business Services serves as a clearinghouse for small, minority-owned and women-owned businesses and provides technical assistance, state procurement guidance and business start-up expertise. • A key function of the Office is the maintenance of NJ SAVI database in order to assist State agencies in establishing and completing set-aside goals. • NJ SAVI is available to private industry as a source of third-party verification for supplier development programs.

3. A Program Policy That Works for You • New Jersey State’s statutorily-mandated small business set-aside contracting program (N.J.S.A. 52:32-17 et seq.) and Executive Order 71 require that each State department make a good faith effort to award a total of 25% of the dollar value of State contracts to eligible small businesses. • Although the Set-Aside Program is currently race and gender neutral, NJ Commerce continues to certify women and minority-owned businesses for the Equal Opportunity Act and for State agency us in Federally funded projects. • The Regulations specifically request that State agencies report all private-sector “recruiting” conducted during the implementation of their Set-Aside Program.

4. What is NJ SAVI and How Does it Work? • Selective Assistance Vendor Information is the • database of businesses that are eligible to receive • selective assistance in New Jersey, hence NJ SAVI. • The Set-Aside Act and the Regulations that were • promulgated subsequently establish that in • furtherance of accomplishing the 25% goal, plans • must be developed by each of the 65+ State • agencies to project Set-Aside contracts for SAVI. • In order to determine if a procurement is going to be a • designated Set-Aside, the buyer will check with the • NJ SAVI database!

5. AND THE PLOT THICKENS……… • By law if there are three or more vendors in SAVI that have • the code that the buyer wants in their business profile, • the department or agency is required to mark the bid or • quote as some form of Set-Aside. • What does it mean to mark a bid or quote as Set-Aside? • ‣ The Best – Set-Aside Small Business • Only vendors that are current in SAVI can bid • or provide a quote for that procurement  • ‣ Great – Partial Small Business • A SAVI vendor will be selected for each aspect of • thecontract that is being bid or quoted  • ‣ Good – Set-Aside Subcontracting • All respondents must specify SAVI subcontractors

6. How do we find eligible supplier participants? • That is where the Web enabled database • – NJ SAVI works for S/M/WBE businesses! • Once an applicant is APPROVED or CERTIFIED • by the Office of Business Services, a vendor • record is created to represent that business. • Contact information and a business services • profile is established in the database that is • real-time active information.

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20. Office of Business Services • Small Business Registration (SBE) • Certification of Minority Owned Businesses (MBE) • Certification of Women Owned Businesses (WBE) muriel.mitchell-lawrence@commerce.state.nj.us “One Stop Shop for Business Information” Phone: 609-292-2146