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City of Los Angeles Small Sidewalk Construction and Repair Services SOQ Document Preparation Workshop
On November 1 , 2023 , Merriwether & Williams Insurance Services ( MWIS ) hosted an inperson workshop to assist small , local , and diverse contractors in preparing a statement of qualifications ( SOQ ) package for small sidewalk construction and repair services with the City of Los Angeles , which issued a request for qualifications ( RFQ ) under its community level contracting ( CLC ) program . The CLC program aims to create prime contractor opportunities for small , local , and diverse contractors by creating a pre-qualified on-call ( PQOC ) list of firms , and then issuing work packages of up to $ 150,000 on a rotating basis to firms on the PQOC list . The workshop was offered as part of the LA Regional Contractor Development and Bonding Program ( CDABP ), which MWIS administers for the City of Los Angeles , LA Metro , and the County of Los Angeles .
In the workshop , MWIS staff provided technical assistance to help contractors submit the required RFQ documentation , explained the submission timeline and deadlines , and answered questions from the 21 attendees .
“ The workshop [….] provided valuable information . We now know enough to prepare the SOQ package .”
– Naomi Rojas , Administrator , Rojas Construction
One attendee was Naomi Rojas , an administrator with Rojas Construction , a small business enterprise ( SBE ) and minority business enterprise ( MBE ) general contracting firm based in San Pedro and owned by her husband Marco Rojas . Rojas Construction submitted an SOQ package when the first CLC sidewalk construction and repair RFQ was issued in 2016 . They were successful in qualifying for the PQOC list and received three work packages of $ 26,000 , $ 38,000 , and $ 85,000 .
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