Texas
Government Code,
Chapter 2161, Subchapter B, Section 2161.065, requires the Texas
Building and Procurement Commission (TBPC) to design a mentor-protégé
program to foster long-term relationships between prime contractors and
HUBs and to increase the ability of HUBs to contract with the State or
to receive subcontracts under a state contract. Each state agency,
including institutions of higher education, with a biennial
appropriation that exceeds $10 million shall implement the program
designed by the TBPC. Participation in the program for both the
contractor and HUB subcontractor must be voluntary.
The
University of Texas-Pan American HUB Program Office in cooperation with
the South Texas Minority Business Opportunity Committee, The University
of Texas at Brownsville, Texas State Technical College in Harlingen, and
the Associated General Contractors have formed the South Texas
Mentor-Protégé Program Committee and implemented the South Texas
Mentor-Protégé Program in compliance with the above legislative
mandate. The Committee is responsible for administration of this
program.
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The South Texas
Mentor Protégé Program
A. Policy Statement
It is the intent of the
South Texas Mentor Protégé Program to build effective working
relationships between leaders of mature established companies and
emerging minority and woman-owned companies in order for the latter to
benefit from the knowledge and experience of the established firms.
B.
Purpose of the Mentor / Protégé Program
The purpose of the program
is to identify and overcome barriers that typically inhibit or restrict
the success of minority and woman-owned businesses currently certified
as State of Texas HUBs by encouraging relationships with other
businesses and to produce a broad base of high quality, competitive, and
profitable HUBs through incremental improvement in their respective
business practices.
C.
Mission
The South Texas
Mentor-Protégé Program has three key component missions:
Increase the
overall participation of HUBs in State of Texas subcontracting;
Foster
long-term relationships between prime contractors and HUBs;
Increase the ability of HUBs to
contract with the State or to receive subcontracts under a state
contract.
D. Program
Goals
The South Texas Mentor-Protégé Program
has the following program goals:
Realization of Protégé’s
company leader’s competency in select areas of identified need.
Increased ability for
Protégé to realize long-term stability in their respective industry.
E.
Responsible Agency Personnel
The South Texas
Mentor-Protégé Program Committee has designated staff for the
administration, outreach, information dissemination, education,
compliance, reporting, and evaluation of the Mentor-Protégé Program.
Program resources from other agency programs are utilized to carry out
the mission of the Program as needed.
The South Texas Mentor
Protégé Program Committee is responsible for maintaining application
documents, Program information materials, Mentor and Protégé application
files, and Mentor- Protégé agreements.
G. South Texas Mentor-Protégé Program - Agency Resource Team
involvement
The South
Texas Mentor-Protégé Program is implemented as a multi-agency effort
involving a base of community participants that will comprise the
Program Committee. The Committee may collaborate with leaders of major
prime and subcontractor companies, financial and bonding institutions,
the Associated General Contractors, minority and woman-owned business
support service organizations, as well as public local minority and
woman-owned business chambers of commerce. The Program Committee is
involved in carrying out the mission of the South Texas Mentor-Protégé
Program, will assess each Mentor-Protégé Agreement, and develop a
multi-agency cooperation plan to make agency resource team personnel
available to assist in supporting Protégé needs identified in the
agreements.
