Program Development
Looking to attract more diverse contractors or develop a more inclusive talent pipeline? Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) programs are essential to complying with state and federal regulations and for helping advance equity and equal opportunities for all. Mason Tillman can help you boost your efficiency and overall bottom line and has over 30 years of program development experience under our belts.
Who is Program Development For?
Program development is for any organization that is in the process of applying concepts learned from a diversity study into practice. Our collaborative process includes a comprehensive needs assessment, goal setting, creating goals and milestones, and establishing a framework for monitoring and compliance.
Mason Tillman’s team of legal and public policy experts, data analysts, market consultants, and community organizers have extensive experience designing DE&I programs for institutions at any scale. We employ a culturally sensitive approach, working with project partners on a personalized basis to drive engagement across multiple ethnic, racial, and cultural lines.
What are your program development needs?
Here’s a list of program development services From Mason Tillman:
Contract Monitoring
Monitoring compliance across specific goals is the primary function of any equity program. Mason Tillman has been a trusted partner in program development for projects large and small. Our proprietary database will enable you to perform the required tracking of prime contract and subcontract awards, contract payments, vendor certifications, and more with ease.
Utilization Reports
Mason Tillman conducts independent reviews of contract awards and payments, creating statistical reports that present analytical findings in a clear and consistent format. We work collaboratively with each client to customize tables, charts, and graphs based on its branding and style guidelines. Each dataset also undergoes numerous quality control queries to identify unusual scenarios, helping you maintain rigorous compliance and monitoring standards at all times.
Workforce Assessments
Our diversity studies analyze the availability of skilled businesses that are willing and able to fulfill your workforce goals. We highlight their top barriers to entering industries and to participating in public contracts. In addition, we have rigorously researched and identified best practices to boost access to employment for diverse industries.
Diversity Reviews
The small, local, minority, and woman-owned Business Enterprise programs that Mason Tillman has managed include contract-specific goal setting, goal attainment review, and good faith effort evaluation. A database application is used to quantify the goal setting and the goal attainment review. Each bidder’s goal attainment is calculated. Based on subcontract dollars committed and verification of the performance of a commercially useful function, a formal memorandum generated from the database documents the goal attainment on each contract.
Legally-Sound Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
Mason Tillman has the expertise to help you meet all the legal requirements of your DE&I program. Here are some areas we specialize in:
DBE Programs
Mason Tillman helps governmental agencies seeking to maximize the number of competitive bids from DBEs in response to their solicitations. We analyze your existing procurement policies and practices, recommending best practices for outreach. Recommendations are provided in line with your solicitation requirements and the contract administration and project management standards.
SBE Programs
The 2011 amendment to the DBE regulations added an SBE program requirement.
Mason Tillman has garnered considerable experience since 2011 — drafting legislation for the SBE requirement stipulated in the DBE regulations.
MWBE Programs
Mason Tillman will provide race and gender-neutral and race and gender-conscious recommendations predicated on the results of your disparity study.
These statistics form a legal basis for all race and gender goals — enriched by anecdotal evidence to improve your purchasing, solicitation, and verification standards to boost MWBE participation.