Leveraging Public Sector Contracting to Create Economic Opportunity for Minority, Women, Veteran, Disadvantaged, and Other Diverse Businesses
Abstract
Progressive government policies have been put in place over recent decades to address systemic discrimination in federal, state, and local public sector contracting markets nationwide. These policies have created measurable diversity targets for public sector contracting. Although designed to fight discrimination, and ensure that Minority, Women, Veteran, Disadvantaged and other diverse business enterprises (MWBEs, VBEs, and DBEs), can better compete for public sector contracts, these diversity targets are frequently not met. MWBEs, VBEs, DBEs, and other diverse businesses rarely get access to significant public sector contracting revenues. The results: Persistent inequality, discrimination, and billions of dollars in unrealized economic opportunity that could positively impact MWBEs, VBEs, DBEs, and other diverse businesses, and their communities.
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