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%)