Consider Using a Single General Contractor
For campus construction “owned” by the institution rather than arranged through third-party leases, consider using a single general contractor with a multi-year contract to manage all projects.
The longer term of a multi-year contract, compared to the typical term of a single project contract, enables the contractor to establish a local presence, to get known by suppliers, subcontractors, and laborers, and to create consistency in meeting local and diversity participation requirements.
This kind of arrangement allows you to build payment incentives for local and diversity participation into this general contract. Third party performance auditing is equally important here as with single-project contracting, however. Single-source contracting requires some forethought about cost competitiveness, and you should consider expectations for additional bids on projects over a certain threshold to keep the process honest.