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- P.O. Box 460 Milford, MI 48381
We have developed plans that put contractors at the forefront of reaching HUD's Section 3 goals. Your company becomes a preferred contract recipient by reaching the benchmarks of your federal funding and we are here to help make that happen.
When your project receives funding from HUD, this means your project will be assigned goals of utilizing Section 3 workers and/or businesses for a certain percentage of the total hours worked on the project. In many cases, contractors fail to reach this goal and demonstrate insufficient efforts in trying to reach this goal. Reaching or even surpassing your Section 3 goals is more attainable than it may seem, and through our experience of monitoring Section 3 compliance, we have developed a packaged service that helps prime contractors reach these goals.
Efforts for meeting Section 3 goals start on a project before bid invitations. It is important to show that, as the prime contractor, you have made your project accessible to businesses and residents in the surrounding community. We help you accomplish this with pre-designed flyers and advertisements that we print and help issue out to the community or disperse online. These flyers and advertisements allow electronic capture of those who are interested via several methods. We customize a webpage for your project that can be reached by URL or QR code. This QR code and short-link URL is used universally on any banners, flyers or posts that target Section 3 applicants. On the webpage, there is an application form that loads respondents into an excel database which can be stored and viewed at any time throughout the project.
Once applicants begin to fill into a database, bid invitation lists can be amended to include businesses in the community. Whether the captured number of business applicants is large or small, this process will be helpful in demonstrating that you were inclusive to the greatest extent feasible. This is HUD’s metric for determining you met your goals.
Maintaining an ongoing Section 3 outreach effort that can be logged and monitored is essential to meeting HUD’s goals by the end of the project. Once a project has begun, we continue the efforts, and extend the reach of the digital application system by printing large banners that can be hung on-site in higher traffic areas which will give notice to residents of the community that work opportunities may be available, while also giving them the access to application tools at any time or day. This allows the database of potential Section 3 applicants to continue to grow in the event that any job openings occur.
Applicants and code scans are logged, as well as communications with applicants, and any matchmaking that is done between applicants and subcontractors. Each step of this process is designed to apply towards the fulfillment of your overall HUD Section 3 outreach goals.
The third major step of our Section 3 program includes the capture of existing Section 3 eligible businesses and workers who may already be working on-site, but whose hours are not being captured as Section 3 or targeted Section 3 hours. In most cases, workers and subcontractors are focused on completing the work they were hired to do and are not fully educated on matters that relate to HUD programs – including Section 3 and what factors relate to eligibility. Our goal is to make sure that each subcontractor is aware of the project’s Section 3 goal and what workers they currently employ might already be eligible (and/or what would make their company qualify as a Section 3 business concern) and then equipping them with the proper self-certification forms are needed and guiding them through the certification process so their hours can contribute towards the fulfillment of the HUD Section 3 goal.
