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Broward County makes adjustments to minority, women business program

The School Board of Broward County is preparing to unveil it's new Supplier Diversity Outreach Program on July 1st.

The program, which will be managed by the Office of Procurement & Warehousing Services, comes after a 2015 disparity study found that small, minority-owned, and woman-owned businesses (S/M/WBEs) face a number of barriers when it comes to taking part on Broward County Schools contracts.

The new policies make several changes, including expanding the original Minority/Women Business Enterprise Program to include local small businesses, implementing a Prime Contract Program to grow the amount of businesses participating in contracting in a prime rather than subcontracting capacity, requiring primes to achieve specific levels of participation from S/M/WBEs in subcontracting work, and instituting an incentive points methodology in the evaluation process for S/M/WBE participation.

"We are committed to addressing the issues outlined in the Disparity Study, strengthening our efforts to support local business in a fair and equitable manner, and monitoring the success of these efforts as we move forward with this important work," said Superintendent Robert W. Runcie.