Documentation Submitted by Contractors with Fewer Than 50 Employees

FHFA MWI CLAUSE
Full Clause:
6.218 Minority and Women Inclusion (NOV 2012)
Contractor confirms its commitment to equal opportunity in employment and contracting. To
implement this commitment, the Contractor shall ensure, to the maximum extent possible consistent
with applicable law, the fair inclusion of minorities and women in its workforce. The Contractor shall
insert the substance of this clause in all subcontracts under this Contract whose dollar value exceeds
$150,000. Within ten business days of a written request from the Contracting Officer, or such longer
time as the Contracting Officer determines, and without any additional consideration required from the
Agency, the Contractor shall provide documentation, satisfactory to the Agency, of the actions it (and as
applicable, its subcontractors) has undertaken to demonstrate its good faith effort to comply with the
aforementioned provisions. For purposes of this contract, “good faith effort” may include actions by the
contractor intended to identify and, if present, remove barriers to minority and women employment or
expansion of employment opportunities for minorities and women within its workforce. Efforts to
remove such barriers may include, but are not limited to, recruiting minorities and women, providing
job-related training, or other activity that could lead to those results. The documentation requested by
the Contracting Officer to demonstrate “good faith effort” may include, but is not limited to, one or
more of the following:
1. The total number of Contractor’s employees, and the number of minority and women
employees, by race, ethnicity, and gender (e.g., an EEO-1);
2. A list of subcontract awards under the Contract that includes: dollar amount, date of award,
and subcontractor’s race, ethnicity, and/or gender ownership status;
3. Information similar to that required in item 1, above, with respect to each subcontractor;
and/or
4. The Contractor’s plan to ensure that minorities and women have appropriate opportunities
to enter and advance within its workforce, including outreach efforts.
Consistent with Section 342(c)(3) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
(P.L. 111-203) (Dodd-Frank Act), a failure to demonstrate to the Associate Director of the Agency’s
Office of Minority and Women Inclusion such good faith efforts to include minorities and women in the
Contractor’s workforce (and as applicable, the workforce of its subcontractors), may result in
termination of the Contract for default, referral to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs,
or other appropriate action. For purposes of this clause, the terms “minority,” “minority-owned
business” and “women-owned business” shall have the meanings set forth in Section 342(g) of the
Dodd-Frank Act.