DBE Goals

A. UPDATE OF GOALS — To make the pro­gram as use­ful as pos­si­ble to the pub­lic, Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board, Flori­da, (Spon­sor) will update the ​“amount,” ​“method,” and ​“break­out” por­tions of this sec­tion of the pro­gram annu­al­ly, or as required. The fol­low­ing sec­tions will be sub­mit­ted to the FAA every year, or as required for approval: Amount of Over­all goal sec­tion, Method used for estab­lish­ing over­all goals, Process, the Race-Neu­tral/Race Con­scious Break­out, and Con­tract Goals. The mate­r­i­al on over­all goals in the DBE pro­gram will be a short­er sum­ma­ry of the mate­r­i­al sub­mit­ted annu­al­ly, or as required, in the over­all goal submission. 

B. AMOUNT OF GOAL — Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board, Flori­da’s over­all goal for FY 2019 is 6.61%, of the Fed­er­al finan­cial assis­tance we will expend in FAA-assist­ed con­tracts. We expect to let projects dur­ing this FY in the amount of $10,276,277; this means that our DBE goal is set at $679,262.00 for this Fis­cal Year. This over­all goal is intend­ed for infor­ma­tion of pub­lic users of the pro­gram, and does not imply that the FAA, as such, has approved the goal. 

C. METHOD STEP 1: In the devel­op­ment of the DBE goal for the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port the first step was to estab­lish the avail­abil­i­ty of ready, will­ing and able DBE busi­ness­es that were capa­ble of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the type of con­tracts that were pro­grammed dur­ing FY 2019. The project that is antic­i­pat­ed at the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port includes Envi­ron­men­tal Mit­i­ga­tion, Ter­mi­nal Gate Six and Sev­en Expan­sion, Taxi­way E1 and Tran­sient Apron, along with the pro­fes­sion­al effort asso­ci­at­ed with such a project. The mon­e­tary size of the project is expect­ed to be $10,276,277.00. An analy­sis of the project indi­cates that funds will be expend­ed in the fol­low­ing areas: 

The weight­ing fac­tor is the val­ue of each work item based on cost as a frac­tion of the whole project. 

The for­mu­la to be used to cal­cu­late the Base Fig­ure for the DBE goal is as follows: 

Total DBE Firms in the Mar­ket Area by NAICS Code of Work to be Per­formed X 100 = Base Fig­ure Total Firms in the Mar­ket Area by NAICS Code of Work to be Performed 

A review of the most recent bid­ders indi­cat­ed bids received from the fol­low­ing coun­ties in Flori­da: Leon, and Bay. It was con­sid­ered rea­son­able to include the coun­ties that sur­round the air­port, there­fore enlarg­ing the mar­ket area to include the fol­low­ing coun­ties in Flori­da: Leon, Bay, Gulf, and Cal­houn. It was gen­er­al­ly agreed that the most com­pre­hen­sive direc­to­ry for DBE firms in Flori­da is the UCP DBE Direc­to­ry that has been estab­lished by the Flori­da Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion. The list was refined by iden­ti­fy­ing those firms that could par­tic­i­pate in the project by match­ing the spe­cif­ic trade and descrip­tion of construction/​professional effort with their appro­pri­ate NAICS and Coun­ty. The result­ing num­ber will be used as the numer­a­tor in deter­min­ing the Base Figure. 

The next step in estab­lish­ing the Base Fig­ure was to deter­mine our denom­i­na­tor. This was accom­plished through the use of the Cen­sus Bureau’s Coun­ty Busi­ness Pat­tern (CBCBP) and the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the NAIC­Ss that were the same as those iden­ti­fied from the Direc­to­ry. With these fig­ures in hand we com­pute our Base Fig­ure using the fol­low­ing mathematics: 

STEP 2: With the Base Fig­ure estab­lished our next step was to more fine­ly tai­lor this fig­ure to reflect con­di­tions which have occurred at the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port. The Spon­sor has con­sid­ered the sug­gest­ed options out­lined in 49 CFR Part 26 and deter­mined that past per­for­mance is the infor­ma­tion that will be used to deter­mine if an adjust­ment to our Base Fig­ure is war­rant­ed. List­ed below are the projects that were includ­ed for analy­sis. Below is a list­ing of the most recent DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion accom­plish­ments for the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Airport:

* MEDI­AN

The next step was to deter­mine if any adjust­ment might be need­ed to the Base Fig­ure. It was deter­mined that the Medi­an of the projects was 0.60% and it was felt that the Base Fig­ure should be adjust­ed to cater for this variance.

A sum­ma­ry of this analy­sis yields the following: 

MEDI­AN PER­CENT­AGE + BASE FIGURE

12.62% + 0.60%

13.22% ÷ 2 = 6.61%

After con­sul­ta­tions with air­port per­son­nel, con­sul­tants and stake­hold­ers it was agreed that the Medi­an Per­cent­age was valid. The final step in the com­par­i­son was the devel­op­ment of a sim­ple aver­age of the Base Fig­ure and the Medi­an Per­cent­age to estab­lish a final per­cent­age. The result of this was 6.61%. It was felt that the Base Fig­ure of 12.62% should be adjust­ed for this vari­ance. The Aver­age Per­cent­age of 6.61% is estab­lished as the goal for DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion at the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port for FY 2019. 

D. PROCESS — The Spon­sor sub­mits its over­all goal for FY 2019 to the FAA in July, 2019, for their con­sid­er­a­tion and approval. Before estab­lish­ing the over­all goal each year, the Sponsor’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive has con­sult­ed with the Flori­da Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion, and stake­hold­ers to obtain infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the avail­abil­i­ty of dis­ad­van­taged and non-dis­ad­van­taged busi­ness­es, and the effects of dis­crim­i­na­tion on oppor­tu­ni­ties for DBEs. The Sponsor’s efforts are to estab­lish a lev­el play­ing field for the par­tic­i­pa­tion of DBEs. Fol­low­ing this con­sul­ta­tion, the Spon­sor has pub­lished a notice of the pro­posed over­all goal, inform­ing the pub­lic that the pro­posed goal and its ratio­nale are avail­able for inspec­tion dur­ing nor­mal busi­ness hours at the Sponsor’s prin­ci­pal office for 30 days fol­low­ing the date of the notice, and inform­ing the pub­lic that the Spon­sor and FAA will accept com­ments on the goals for 30 days from the date of the notice. This infor­ma­tion was post­ed on the sponsor’s web­site at https://​www​.ifly​beach​es​.com/ and made avail­able to the Office of Minor­i­ty Busi­ness Devel­op­ment in the State of Flori­da. Nor­mal­ly, the Spon­sor will issue this notice by June 1 of each year. The notice will include the Sponsor’s address­es to which com­ments may be sent. The over­all goal sub­mis­sion to the FAA will include a sum­ma­ry of infor­ma­tion and com­ments received dur­ing this pub­lic par­tic­i­pa­tion process and the Sponsor’s respons­es. We will begin using our over­all goal on Octo­ber 1 of each year, unless we have received oth­er instruc­tions from DOT (or if the goal is estab­lished on a project basis, by the time of the first solic­i­ta­tion for a DOT-assist­ed con­tract for the project). The fol­low­ing people/​agencies were invit­ed to the stake­hold­er con­sul­ta­tion, Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board, Flori­da, North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, ZHA, Childers Con­struc­tion, CW Roberts, and Taffy Pip­pin Con­sult­ing. Con­sul­ta­tion dis­cus­sions were held with the fol­low­ing agen­cies on July 26 at approx­i­mate­ly 10:00 pm CST with a ques­tion regard­ing, forms for prompt pay­ment report­ing, bid pro­ce­dures and DBEs, DBE replace­ment, Fed­er­al dol­lar count­ing, pro­fes­sion­al DBE goals and participation.

Pub­lic com­ments have been request­ed for the FY 2019 goal and the 30 day com­ment peri­od is under­way. Any com­ments received from the pub­lic adver­tise­ment or the oth­er coor­di­na­tion will be eval­u­at­ed and nec­es­sary changes will be made to the goal and includ­ed in the con­tract doc­u­ments for the project. 

E. RACE CON­SCIOUS AND RACE NEU­TRAL GOALS: Each time The Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board sub­mits an over­all goal for review by the FAA, the Spon­sor will also sub­mit a pro­jec­tion of the por­tion of the goal that is expect­ed to be met through race-neu­tral means and the basis for that pro­jec­tion. This pro­jec­tion is sub­ject to approval by the FAA, in con­junc­tion with its review of the Sponsor’s over­all goal. The Spon­sor will estab­lish con­tract goals to meet any por­tion of an over­all goal when the Spon­sor does not project being able to meet goals using race-neu­tral means. 

We esti­mate that, in meet­ing our goal of 6.61%, we will obtain 6.61% of the goal from race-con­scious par­tic­i­pa­tion and 0.00% via race-neu­tral par­tic­i­pa­tion mea­sures. This is an attain­able goal based on the his­to­ry of DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion in pri­or projects and the avail­abil­i­ty of cur­rent DBE contractors. 

This break­out was estab­lished by com­put­ing the medi­an of the vari­ance of the lev­el of DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion vs. DBE goal on the three projects con­sid­ered in Step 2 (see page 3) of the Pre­vi­ous FAA Projects. The Medi­an is 0.00%, and is estab­lished as the race-neu­tral goal for FY 2019. The fol­low­ing is the data base upon which the lev­el of vari­ance was com­put­ed using the ​“Pri­or Projects Con­sid­ered” information: 

*MEDI­AN VARIANCE

F. CON­TRACT GOALS 

Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board, Flori­da will use con­tract goals to meet any por­tion of the over­all goal that the Spon­sor does not project being able to meet using race-neu­tral means. Con­tract goals are estab­lished so that, over the peri­od to which the over­all goal applies, they will cumu­la­tive­ly result in meet­ing any por­tion of our over­all goal that is not pro­ject­ed to be met through the use of race-neu­tral means. 

G. THREE YEAR GOAL 

Based on the method­olo­gies and cal­cu­la­tions for FY 2019, and FY 2020 for the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port the fol­low­ing aver­age is sub­mit­ted as a two year goal. 

FY 2019 + FY 2020

6.61% + 3.31%

9.92% ÷2=4.96%

Ref­er­ences:

Flori­da UCP List of Cer­ti­fied DBE Firms, July2019 

2016 – U.S. Cen­sus Bureau/​American Fact Find­er July 2019

FIS­CAL YEAR 2020 

A. Update of Goals — To make the pro­gram as use­ful as pos­si­ble to the pub­lic, Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board, Flori­da, (Spon­sor) will update the ​“amount,” ​“method,” and ​“break­out” por­tions of this sec­tion of the pro­gram annu­al­ly, or as required. The fol­low­ing sec­tions will be sub­mit­ted to the FAA every year, or as required for approval: Amount of Over­all goal sec­tion, Method used for estab­lish­ing over­all goals, Process, the Race-Neu­tral/Race Con­scious Break­out, and Con­tract Goals. The mate­r­i­al on over­all goals in the DBE pro­gram will be a short­er sum­ma­ry of the mate­r­i­al sub­mit­ted annu­al­ly, or as required, in the over­all goal submission. 

B. Amount of Goal — Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board, Flori­da’s over­all goal for FY 2020 is 3.31%, of the Fed­er­al finan­cial assis­tance we will expend in FAA-assist­ed con­tracts. We expect to let projects dur­ing this FY in the amount of $2,914,670.00; this means that our DBE goal is set at $96,476.00 for this Fis­cal Year. This over­all goal is intend­ed for infor­ma­tion of pub­lic users of the pro­gram, and does not imply that the FAA, as such, has approved the goal. 

C. METHOD STEP 1: In the devel­op­ment of the DBE goal for the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port the first step was to estab­lish the avail­abil­i­ty of ready, will­ing and able DBE busi­ness­es that were capa­ble of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the type of con­tracts that were pro­grammed dur­ing FY 2019. The project that is antic­i­pat­ed at the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port includes Design of TSA Screen­ing Check Point, Out­bound Bag­gage Make­up, CBP Inter­na­tion­al Facil­i­ty, Com­mer­cial Apron Expan­sion along with the pro­fes­sion­al effort asso­ci­at­ed with such a project. The mon­e­tary size of the project is expect­ed to be $2,914,670.00. An analy­sis of the project indi­cates that funds will be expend­ed in the fol­low­ing areas: 

The weight­ing fac­tor is the val­ue of each work item based on cost as a frac­tion of the whole project. 

The for­mu­la to be used to cal­cu­late the Base Fig­ure for the DBE goal is as follows: 

Total DBE Firms in the Mar­ket Area by NAICS Code of Work to be Per­formed X 100 = Base Fig­ure Total Firms in the Mar­ket Area by NAICS Code of Work to be Performed 

A review of the most recent bid­ders indi­cat­ed bids received from the fol­low­ing coun­ties in Flori­da: Leon, and Bay. It was con­sid­ered rea­son­able to include the coun­ties that sur­round the air­port, there­fore enlarg­ing the mar­ket area to include the fol­low­ing coun­ties in Flori­da: Leon, Bay, Gulf, and Cal­houn. It was gen­er­al­ly agreed that the most com­pre­hen­sive direc­to­ry for DBE firms in Flori­da is the UCP DBE Direc­to­ry that has been estab­lished by the Flori­da Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion. The list was refined by iden­ti­fy­ing those firms that could par­tic­i­pate in the project by match­ing the spe­cif­ic trade and descrip­tion of construction/​professional effort with their appro­pri­ate NAICS and Coun­ty. The result­ing num­ber will be used as the numer­a­tor in deter­min­ing the Base Figure. 

The next step in estab­lish­ing the Base Fig­ure was to deter­mine our denom­i­na­tor. This was accom­plished through the use of the Cen­sus Bureau’s Coun­ty Busi­ness Pat­tern (CBCBP) and the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the NAIC­Ss that were the same as those iden­ti­fied from the Direc­to­ry. With these fig­ures in hand we com­pute our Base Fig­ure using the fol­low­ing mathematics: 

STEP 2: With the Base Fig­ure estab­lished our next step was to more fine­ly tai­lor this fig­ure to reflect con­di­tions which have occurred at the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port. The Spon­sor has con­sid­ered the sug­gest­ed options out­lined in 49 CFR Part 26 and deter­mined that, based on expe­ri­ence in this mar­ket and the heavy con­cen­tra­tion of design in the scope of this project, and, after con­sul­ta­tions with air­port per­son­nel, con­sul­tants and stake­hold­ers it was agreed that no adjust­ment should be made to the Step 1 Base Figure. 

D. PROCESS — The Spon­sor sub­mits its over­all goal for FY 2020 to the FAA in July, 2019, for their con­sid­er­a­tion and approval. Before estab­lish­ing the over­all goal each year, the Sponsor’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive has con­sult­ed with the Flori­da Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion, and stake­hold­ers to obtain infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the avail­abil­i­ty of dis­ad­van­taged and non-dis­ad­van­taged busi­ness­es, and the effects of dis­crim­i­na­tion on oppor­tu­ni­ties for DBEs. The Sponsor’s efforts and made avail­able to the Office of Minor­i­ty Busi­ness Devel­op­ment in the State of Flori­da. Nor­mal­ly, the Spon­sor will issue this notice by June 1 of each year. The notice will include the Sponsor’s address­es to which com­ments may be sent. The over­all goal sub­mis­sion to the FAA will include a sum­ma­ry of infor­ma­tion and com­ments received dur­ing this pub­lic par­tic­i­pa­tion process and the Sponsor’s respons­es. We will begin using our over­all goal on Octo­ber 1 of each year, unless we have received oth­er instruc­tions from DOT (or if the goal is estab­lished on a project basis, by the time of the first solic­i­ta­tion for a DOT-assist­ed con­tract for the project). The fol­low­ing people/​agencies were invit­ed to the stake­hold­er con­sul­ta­tion, Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board, Flori­da, North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, ZHA, Childers Con­struc­tion, CW Roberts, and Taffy Pip­pin Con­sult­ing. Con­sul­ta­tion dis­cus­sions were held with the fol­low­ing agen­cies on July 26 at approx­i­mate­ly 10:00 pm CST with a ques­tion regard­ing, forms for prompt pay­ment report­ing, bid pro­ce­dures and DBEs, DBE replace­ment, Fed­er­al dol­lar count­ing, pro­fes­sion­al DBE goals and participation.

Pub­lic com­ments have been request­ed for the FY 2019 goal and the 30 day com­ment peri­od is under­way. Any com­ments received from the pub­lic adver­tise­ment or the oth­er coor­di­na­tion will be eval­u­at­ed and nec­es­sary changes will be made to the goal and includ­ed in the con­tract doc­u­ments for the project. 

E. RACE CON­SCIOUS AND RACE NEU­TRAL GOALS: Each time The Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board sub­mits an over­all goal for review by the FAA, the Spon­sor will also sub­mit a pro­jec­tion of the por­tion of the goal that is expect­ed to be met through race-neu­tral means and the basis for that pro­jec­tion. This pro­jec­tion is sub­ject to approval by the FAA, in con­junc­tion with its review of the Sponsor’s over­all goal. The Spon­sor will estab­lish con­tract goals to meet any por­tion of an over­all goal when the Spon­sor does not project being able to meet goals using race-neu­tral means. 

We esti­mate that, in meet­ing our goal of 3.31%, we will obtain 3.31% of the goal from race-con­scious par­tic­i­pa­tion and 0.00% via race-neu­tral par­tic­i­pa­tion mea­sures. This is an attain­able goal based on the his­to­ry of DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion in pri­or projects and the avail­abil­i­ty of cur­rent DBE contractors. 

This break­out was estab­lished by com­put­ing the medi­an of the vari­ance of the lev­el of DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion vs. DBE goal over the pre­vi­ous three years. The Medi­an is 0.00%, and is estab­lished as the race-neu­tral goal for FY 2020. 

*MEDI­AN VARIANCE

F. Con­tract Goals 

Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict Board, Flori­da will use con­tract goals to meet any por­tion of the over­all goal that the Spon­sor does not project being able to meet using race-neu­tral means. Con­tract goals are estab­lished so that, over the peri­od to which the over­all goal applies, they will cumu­la­tive­ly result in meet­ing any por­tion of our over­all goal that is not pro­ject­ed to be met through the use of race-neu­tral means. 

G. THREE YEAR GOAL 

Based on the method­olo­gies and cal­cu­la­tions for FY 2019 and FY 2020 for the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port the fol­low­ing aver­age is sub­mit­ted as a two year goal. 

FY 2019 + FY 2020

6.61% + 3.31%

9.92% ÷2 = 4.96%

Ref­er­ences:

Flori­da UCP List of Cer­ti­fied DBE Firms, July2019 

2016 – U.S. Cen­sus Bureau/​American Fact Find­er July 2019