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City fails disparity test

   January 16, 2009

The draft of the MGT Study of the City of Pensacola’s Procurement and Small Business Enterprise (SBE) Program is close to being released.

We received a copy of the draft and the numbers aren’t good. From FY 2005-FY 2007, the City of Pensacola used 1,616 vendors only 12 were minorities (less than 1 percent)- 8 African-American, 1 Asian-American, 1 Hispanic-American, 2 Native Americans.

Of the 1542 white-owned vendors, 16 were owned by women and 1 by physically disabled.

If you look at the dollars spent, it’s not much better. For the three year period, the City awarded contracts for $272,272,147 – 98.06% went to white male-owned businesses.

African-Americans $2,841,025 (1.04%)
Hispanic-Americans $923
Asian-Americans $26,396 (.01%)
Native Americans $57,912 (.02%)
Non-minority Women $5,291,430 (1.94%)

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