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Table B. M/WBE Utilization at the City of Cleveland (All Contracts) (Dollars Paid)
M/WBE Type Procurement Category
Executive Summary
Construction AE-CRS Services Commodities Overall
(%) (%) (%) (%) (%)
African American 8.57 5.68 18.88 1.41 8.78
Hispanic 1.99 0.80 2.65 0.49 1.70
Asian/Pacific Islander 2.67 19.29 1.38 0.08 2.43
Native American 1.42 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.72
Minority Total 14.64 25.77 22.92 1.99 13.64
Nonminority female 6.30 4.81 3.04 4.72 5.18
M/WBE Total 20.95 30.57 25.97 6.71 18.82
Non-M/WBE Total 79.05 69.43 74.03 93.29 81.18
Total (%) 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
Total ($) 451,620,259 36,048,885 183,409,966 222,573,611 893,652,721
Number of Prime
Contracts
7,505 251 5,184 10,754 23,694
Number of
Subcontracts
1,292 274 439 42 2,047
Source: Table 7.2.
We examined M/WBE utilization for several different cross sections of contract and procurement
data, including, federally-assisted transportation contracts, locally-funded contracts, prime
contracts, major procurements (contracts over $50,000 in 2010 and over $10,000 prior to that
time), and non-major procurements. We also examined M/WBE utilization both before and after
June 2008, when the most recent revisions to the City’s M/WBE and CSB ordinance went into
effect. These statistics are documented below in Tables 7.1 through 7.20.
Next we compared the City’s and its prime contractors’ use of or collaboration with M/WBEs to
our measure of M/WBE availability levels in the relevant market area. If M/WBE utilization is
lower than measured availability in a given category we report this result as a disparity.
Table C provides a top-level summary of our disparity findings for the 2012 Study for
Construction, AE-CRS, Services, and Commodities. We find significant evidence of disparity in
the City’s contracting and procurement activity in a number of categories, despite the operation
of the M/WBE Program between 2006 and 2010 and the CSB Program between June 2008 and
2010.
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