Miami-Dade County launches study to improve minority contractors’ access to $3 billion budget

This disparity study is the county’s strategy to give their lawyers better ammunition to argue the case for new procurement rules.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has announced a new “disparity study” to investigate and quantify biases against women, Black and Hispanic-owned businesses in the awarding of contracts from the county’s $3 billion contract budget — the first stage in a historically contentious debate in the county.

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