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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED114453 AUTHOR: Hope, John, III, Ed.
TITLE: Minorities and Women as Government Contractors.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
NOTE: 206 p.
ABSTRACT: The stated objectives of the study reported here
were to determine the answers to the following questions:
what Federal, State and local programs provide contracting
opportunities for minorities and women equal to those
provided to nonminority males; if not, what the barriers to
their full participation are; to what extent special State
or local contracting programs have been established to
facilitate contracting with firms owned by minorities and
women; whether distinct organizational mechanisms have been
established to implement such special contracting programs,
and if so, whether such mechanisms are adequately equipped
to carry out their task; whether goals have been
established
for such programs and are these programs achieving their
goals; whether the type and size of contracts being awarded
through the special programs aid the development of the
firsts they are designed to assist; whether there is an
edequate flow of information to minorities and women
regarding Federal, State, and local contracting
opportunities; whether unique problems are encountered by
minority and female-owned firms supplying goods and
services
to government agencies; and, whether the government's
purchasing power is being effectively used to aid the
development of firms owned by minorities and women. Data on
Federal contracting programs were gathered from responses
to
a questionnaire sent to 10 Federal agencies and two offices
responsible for administering Indian programs. (Author/JM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Administrative-Agencies; Affirmative
Action; Budgeting-; Contracts-; Employed-Women;
Expenditures
; Federal-Programs; Minority-Groups; National-Surveys;
Program-Budgeting; Resource-Allocation
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Administrative-Policy; *Agency-Role;
*Civil-Rights; *Federal-Government; *Purchasing-
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