DEPARTMENT: Economic Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Alejandra Lopez
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S) IMPACTED: City-wide
SUBJECT: Briefing on the FY 2019 Small Business Annual Report
SUMMARY:
Briefing by the Economic Development Department (EDD) on the FY 2019 utilization of small, minority, women-owned businesses on City contracts.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Small Business Economic Development Advocacy (SBEDA) Program combines best practices from around the country to create a robust and comprehensive policy that is designed to remedy disparity of local small, minority and women-owned businesses (S/M/WBEs) on City contracts. The SBEDA program was first established in 1992 and has undergone two major updates following the completion of required disparity studies in 2010 and 2015. Per the legal standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court case, Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. (1989), a disparity study should be conducted every five years to determine if disparities of S/M/WBEs remain.
The first major update to the program was implemented in 2011 following findings from the 2010 disparity study. The program changes established a Goal Setting Committee, compliance module, Central Vendor Registry, and capacity building programs, such as the Mentor Prot?g? program as well as created various contract specific tools to increase S/M/WBE utilization on City contracts.
The City completed its last disparity study in 2015, which demonstrated the City has progressed in utilization of S/M/WBEs on City contracts, but disparity of S/M/WBEs in the San Antonio market area remains. As a result, the SBEDA program was amended in 2016 to expand the applicability of its tools for all industries and ethnicities/genders, as well as allow for S/M/WBE prime contractors to self-perform S/M/WBE subcontracting goals to further build their capacity.
ISSUE:
The FY 2019 Small Business Annual Report highlights the distribution of dollars paid to S/M/WBEs on City contracts in which the SBEDA program applied....
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