Friday, February 6, 2004

Hispanic-owned businesses get $4.4 million in TDOT contracts





$4.4 million figure amounts to 11% of contracts awarded to female- and minority-owned businesses but less than 0.3% of total contracts awarded.



"Female- and minority-owned businesses' share of Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) contracts last year amounted to $40.3 million. That's of a total of $1.6 billion in all TDOT contracts awarded. Here's the breakdown of the contracts given to so-called disadvantaged business enterprises:



Group — Amount / Goals for number of contracts awarded / Contracts awarded / Number of vendors



African-American men — $5,231,742 /25 / 49 / 31

African-American women — $708,075 / 8 / 20 / 5

Asian-Indian Americans — $2,126,442 / 11 / 11 / 1

Asian-Pacific Americans — $290,557 / 4 / 4 / 1

Hispanic Americans — $4,382,373 / 15 / 28 / 2

Native Americans — $1,725,752 / 17 / 7 / 3

White women — $25,815,391 / 162 / 273 / 42"



The Tennessean

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