OMWI Contract Clause

FHFA MWI CLAUSE

Full Clause:
6.218 Minority and Women Inclusion (OCT 2017)
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 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
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56 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.