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Estimation of race-neutral goals in public procurement and contracting

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  • Samuel Myers
  • Inhyuck “Steve” Ha

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Federal guidelines require that public entities receiving federal transit authority (FTA) funds take affirmative steps to allocate funds to disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs). Business firms owned and operated by women and/or racial minority group members are presumptively classified as disadvantaged. To assure that the affirmative efforts to allocate contract dollars to DBEs don't discriminate against nonDBEs and white male-owned firms, the guidelines require that maximum use of race-neutral means be adopted to assure the inclusion of women and minority-owned firms in public contracting. The guidelines do not provide specific guidance on how to determine the size of the race-neutral portion of contracts awarded to DBEs. This article provides an empirically valid and easy to implement method for achieving race-neutral goals when a public agency or authority collects information on contracts with and without targeted goals.

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  • Samuel Myers & Inhyuck “Steve” Ha, 2009. "Estimation of race-neutral goals in public procurement and contracting," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(3), pages 251-256.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:16:y:2009:i:3:p:251-256
    DOI: 10.1080/13504850601018338
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    1. Rodrigo Lovaton Davila & Inhyuck “Steve” Ha & Samuel L. Myers, 2012. "Affirmative action retrenchment in public procurement and contracting," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(18), pages 1857-1860, December.

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