Race- and gender-neutral measures to promote equal opportunities for all business enterprises.
Denver Revised Municipal Code § 28-34
in effectSec. 28-34. - Race- and gender-neutral measures to promote equal opportunities for all business enterprises.
The city, through the DSBO, in cooperation with user departments, other governmental agencies and private parties and organizations, is authorized to develop and utilize discretionary programs and activities to provide outreach to, and to facilitate the participation of, all business enterprises in city contracting and concession activities, including, but not limited to, MWBEs and SBEs. These programs and activities may include, but are not limited to:
(a) Collection and analysis, for informational purposes only, of data and information from each bidder or proposer on a city contract regarding the ongoing availability and utilization of minority and women-owned business enterprises, including MWBEs, on such bidder's or proposer's private contracts in the construction and professional design and construction services industries in the city's marketplace. DSBO and the user departments will explore making provision of such data and information a condition precedent to or an element of prequalification for bidding or proposing on city contracts within the scope of this chapter 28.
(b) Development of such other programs or activities as the director may from time to time recommend.
(Ord. No. 286-20, § 1, 4-13-20)
Source: City and County of Denver, Revised Municipal Code and Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/co/denver/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIREMUCO_CH28HURI_ARTIIINOCOCOREREPRDECOSE_DIV1DISMBUOP_SDIINGE_S28-34RAENUTMEPREQOPALBUENFetched: 10/27/2026