Act 13 of 2012: Small Diverse Business Participation Survey

Act 13 of 2012 requires the Pennsylvania Department of General Services (DGS) to survey and collect data on producers' efforts to provide maximum practicable contracting opportunities to small diverse businesses (hereafter SDBs) including minority, woman, veteran, LGBT, disabled, and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses. The results of this survey, including information identifying those companies that do not complete the survey, will be compiled into the Marcellus Shale Annual Report for the General Assembly and made publicly available on the DGS website. Act 13 requires producers to respond to the DGS survey within 90 days of receipt. Data collection is for activity period between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017.