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August 17, 2022
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #22-267
Sponsored By: Janet Jackson
Board of Commissioners - Resolution Supporting Senate Bill 117 and House Bill 4902 to Help Michigan
Businesses and Workers Procure Contracts With the State of Michigan
Chairperson and Members of the Board:
WHEREAS Michigan businesses were hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic; and
WHEREAS supporting Michigan-headquartered businesses and job creators is more important than ever to
sustain the economic growth in our state; and
WHEREAS with over $16 billion on a yearly basis dedicated to procurement of goods and services through the
Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB), this legislation will be critical to address the
need of ensuring more Michigan-based companies are awarded state contracts; and
WHEREAS the proposed legislation gives Michigan headquartered companies a 7-day window to resubmit a
bid for a state contract if the lowest bidder on the contract is an out-of-state company. If the Michigan-
headquartered company re-bids and the bid is lower than the out of state company’s original bid, then the
Michigan company would get the contract; and
WHEREAS this legislation would prioritize those dollars going to Michigan-based companies, giving
companies an added incentive to submit bids for state contracts and a higher probability of them being
successful bids for the delivery of goods and services while keeping the existing “responsive and responsible
best value bidder” safeguards set by the DTMB; and
WHEREAS if adopted, this bipartisan effort would ensure retaining more tax dollars within our state, invest in
Michigan headquartered and operated companies, and place an emphasis on companies that may have
traditionally been overlooked; and
WHEREAS recently, the neighboring State of Ohio, enacted a law (ORC 123:5-1-06) with language similar to
Michigan legislation.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners support Senate
Bill 117 and House Bills 4902 which would help Michigan businesses and workers procure contracts with the
state of Michigan .
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Speaker
of the House of Representatives, the House Democratic Leader, Majority Leader of the Senate, Senate
Democratic Leader, the Oakland County state legislative delegation.
Chairperson, the following Commissioners are sponsoring the foregoing Resolution: Janet Jackson.
Date: August 17, 2022
David Woodward, Commissioner
Date: August 19, 2022
Lisa Brown, County Clerk / Register of Deeds
COMMITTEE TRACKING
2022-07-19 Full Board - Refer to Legislative Affairs & Government Operations Committee
2022-08-09 Legislative Affairs & Government Operations - recommend to Board
2022-08-17 Full Board
VOTE TRACKING
Motioned by Commissioner Charles Cavell seconded by Commissioner Michael Gingell to adopt the attached
Resolution: Supporting Senate Bill 117 and House Bill 4902 to Help Michigan Businesses and Workers Procure
Contracts With the State of Michigan .
Yes: David Woodward, Michael Gingell, Michael Spisz, Karen Joliat, Kristen Nelson, Eileen Kowall,
Christine Long, Philip Weipert, Gwen Markham, Angela Powell, Thomas Kuhn, Chuck Moss, Marcia
Gershenson, Yolanda Smith Charles, Charles Cavell, Penny Luebs, Janet Jackson, Gary McGillivray, Robert
Hoffman, Adam Kochenderfer (20)
No: None (0)
Abstain: None (0)
Absent: (0)
Passed
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STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on August 17, 2022,
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan on Wednesday, August 17, 2022.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County Clerk / Register of Deeds