Specifications include, but are not limited to: Construction Disparity Study. The study will evaluate the extent of marketplace discrimination, if any, against minority-owned and women-owned businesses regarding their participation in City construction projects. Proposers are encouraged to propose additional tasks or activities if they will substantially improve the results of the study. These items should be seperated from the required items on the cost proposal. The goal of this study is to produce both statistical data and anecdotal information to address the following issues: discriminatory effect: whether the effects of past discrimination against minority-owned and women-owned businesses in City construction contracting exist or continue to exist within the study market area, as a result of direct action by the City, or as a result of the City's role as a passive participant in discriminatory behavior practiced by entities that do business with the City. Active discrimination: Whether active racial and gender discrimination continues to exist in the study market area; whether there is still a disparity between the utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in the local marketplace compared to their availability, and if not, whether there would be disparities but for the existence of remedial programs.
