State of Oregon: ODOT Office of Civil Rights

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ODOT Office of Civil Rights

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The Oregon Department of Transportation is dedicated to a well-qualified, diverse workforce representative to the public it serves. Diversity is an ODOT strategic business value taking advantage of diverse, creative thinking, collaboration, and problem solving toward common State and Federal transportation goals.

In The News

Public Notice - ODOT Workforce Development Program

The Oregon Department of Transportation's proposal to implement a change to Federal Highway Administration and State of Oregon contracts for Equal Employment Opportunity and Apprenticeship training.

OCR Updates

Update on the DBE Program

Reply to ODOT's request for a waiver from The Secretary of Transportation, Washington, D.C. in regards to group-specific goals in administering the Federal DBE program.

Select to read the reply (.pdf)

Disparity Study results

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court ruled a DOT must have "compelling evidence" to justify having goals in contracts that require the use of DBEs. Therefore in January 2007 ODOT commissioned a Disparity Study to determine utilization of DBE firms on its contracts.

Events
- Bid Opening
- Minority Enterprise Dev (MED)