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City will revisit way it awards minority contracts
By TIMES STAFF WRITER
Published October 20, 2006
The Tampa City Council on Thursday voted to pay a consultant $70,000 to revisit a study of the city's minority contracting practices. The decision came after David Vaughn, director of the city's Contracts Administration Department, discovered 419 businesses that were omitted from the study, which cost the city $110,000. Mason Tillman Associates' analysis showed the city falls short in hiring minority- and women-owned businesses for major contracts. It compared the availability of such businesses in the marketplace to how much work they received from October 2001 to September 2004. The study will provide the legal basis for an ordinance outlining race- and gender-based contracting goals. City officials say the company's study omitted some businesses. But a St. Petersburg Times review of 270 of the 419 companies the city says need to be included revealed businesses that were not in operation during the study period and one whose owner had died in 1980.
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