Illinois Code § 56

§ 56.

Utilization requirements. (a) Design-builder and Construction Manager/General Contractor projects shall comply with Section 2-105 of the Illinois Human Rights Act and all applicable laws and rules that establish standards and procedures for the utilization of minority, disadvantaged, and women-owned businesses, including, but not limited to, the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Any Transportation Agency that administers a construction program, for which federal law or regulations establish standards and procedures for the utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses and disadvantaged businesses shall implement a disadvantaged business enterprise program to include minority-owned and women-owned businesses and disadvantaged businesses, using the federal standards and procedures for the establishment of goals and utilization procedures for the State-funded, as well as the federally assisted, portions of the program. In cases of federal funding or federally assisted projects, these goals shall not exceed those established pursuant to the relevant and applicable federal statutes or regulations. Each design-build contract and Construction Manager/General Contractor contract shall include remedies for a contractor's failure to comply with commitments made in the proposal or utilization plan, including, without limitation, failure to cooperate in providing information regarding compliance or termination of any subcontractor identified in the utilization plan without the consent of the Transportation Agency. Such remedies may include termination of the contract, imposition of a penalty in an amount equivalent to any profit or cost savings accruing to the contractor as a result of the violation, withholding of payments, liquidated damages, disqualification from future bidding as non-responsible, or any other remedy available to the Transportation Agency at law or in equity. (b) For the purposes of this Section, aspirational goals compliant with the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program shall be established separately for construction-related professional services and shall be consistent with the Transportation Agency's methodology for design-bid-build contracts. As used in this Section, "construction-related professional services" means those services within the scope of the practice of architecture, professional engineering, structural engineering, or land surveying, as defined in the Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989, the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989, the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989, or the Illinois Structural Engineering Practice Act of 1989. (Source: P.A. 102-1094, eff. 6-15-22.)