Initiatives designed to foster opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses are scattered across Dallas, with rules and goals to help owners win...
The city of Dallas and other local governments are working to expand opportunities so more minority- and women-owned businesses can earn contracts.Initiatives designed to foster opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses are scattered across Dallas, with rules and goals to help owners win contracts with the city, the county or school district.
Strong minority- and women-owned business enterprise, or MWBE, programs are a large part of that remedy, he added. Otherwise, government institutions continue on the same course that led to such inequities, Henry said. Conclusions from a 2020 study found that while the city had awarded nearly 30% — and $719 million — of its procurements and contracts to minority- or women-owned businesses from 2013 to 2018, significant disparities between utilization and availability remained.
The district aims to have 30% to 35% of contracts go to such firms depending on the type of service. DISD’s utilization ranged widely by the end of 2021 from 14% to 72% in various categories. Questions over a minority-owned subcontractor stalled work to rebuild tornado-ravaged Thomas Jefferson High School — and a new K-8 campus that would replace the damaged Cary Middle School. DISD terminated its initial contracts at the two campuses after a district investigation found irregularities in paperwork from a minority-owned subcontractor.
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