Section 12-3-1106 - Diversity business program director - Annual goals for contracting with businesses(a) The chief procurement officer, as director of the governor's office of diversity business enterprises, shall appoint a diversity business program director to work in conjunction with the departments of general services, finance and administration, transportation, economic and community development and the state building commission to:(1) Compile and maintain a comprehensive list of any minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, business owned by persons with disabilities, or small business by cooperating with both governmental and private sector entities in locating potential sources for various products and services;(2) Assist any minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, business owned by persons with disabilities, or small business in complying with state procurement and contracting procedures and requirements;(3) Examine requests from state agencies for the purchase of goods or services to help determine which solicitations may offer increased opportunities for any minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, business owned by persons with disabilities, or small business; and(4) Make recommendations to appropriate state agencies for the simplification of procurement and contract specifications and terms in order to increase the opportunities of participation by any minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, business owned by persons with disabilities, or small business.(b) All state agencies shall fully cooperate with the governor's office of diversity business enterprises and shall provide staff support and any other assistance upon request of the chief procurement officer. This cooperation specifically includes, but is not limited to, establishing and striving to achieve annual state agency level internal goals for minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, business owned by persons with disabilities, or small business contracting. In establishing and striving to achieve these annual goals, each agency shall work closely with the governor's office of diversity business enterprises. Each agency shall provide as requested to the governor's office of diversity business enterprises periodic reports on upcoming procurement and contract opportunities and on the level of participation by minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, business owned by persons with disabilities, or small business in that agency's procurements and contracts.Amended by 2017 Tenn. Acts, ch. 485,s 11, eff. 6/6/2017.Added by 2013 Tenn. Acts, ch. 403,s 67, eff. 7/1/2013.