Published on 03/24/2025
<p>The City of Arlington exceeded its aspirational participation goal of 30 percent of contracts going to minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) in fiscal year 2024. The City reached an MWBE participation goal of 38 percent during that period on prime contracts valued at over $50,000.<br /><br />The figure of 38 percent is derived from the fact that MWBEs received 51 prime contracts during the period, out of a total 134 contracts. Tracking progress towards the participation goal is performed by the City's Office of Business Diversity, which operates the MWBE Program. Both the program and the office were instituted in 2021. The City attempts to reach its goals by means of contract-specific goals for encouraging MWBE subcontracting, as well as by hosting a variety of outreach initiatives, training programs, workshops, and the like. The average per-contract MWBE goal for all projects with such subcontracting goals was 21 percent, while the actual MWBE utilization (or "spend") figure was 50 percent.<br /><br />The City also saw significant growth in MWBE vendor registrations, with 228 MWBEs registering as vendors during the period, up from 180 in the previous fiscal year.<br /><br />Read a press release from the City at https://www.arlingtontx.gov/news/my_arlington_t_x/news_stories/mwbe_fy24_report.</p>
