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May 2015

2015 Public Authorities Disparity Studies

Presented by:

Iris Saint, BBC Associate (303) 321-2547 isaint@bbcresearch.com Nancy West, Exstare Managing Member (703) 765-4050 nancy@exstarefederalservices.com

Project Team

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Nancy West

BBC

Co-Prime Consultant

Exstare Federal Services

Co-Prime Consultant Nancy West Holland & Knight

National Legal Expert

Keith Wiener Customer Research International

National Survey Expert

Sanjay Vrudhula Supplier Diversity Research

Local Diversity Expert

Cynthia Cooper Todd Pickton Sameer Bawa Iris Saint

• Understanding the studies’ purpose and process
• Community participation
• Encouraging support for the studies
• Sharing information
• Study advocates
• Study website:

www.transportation.ohio.gov/disparity

What’s Important to the Studies’ Success

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Primary Study Objectives

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Assess whether minority-/women-owned businesses (M/Ws) face discrimination

Assess any underutilization of M/Ws Examine any barriers in Ohio marketplace Review contract policies, program measures Refine current program measures Assist with program compliance, implementation

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(including goal-setting)

Disparity Study

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Community engagement Legal analysis and framework Review of contracting, program measures Utilization analysis Availability analysis Disparity analysis Explanations of any disparities Analyses of marketplace conditions Overall DBE goal Recommendations and implementation

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Community Engagement

Information

• Steering committee
• Webpages/e-mail
• Public notices

Participation

• Public hearings
• In-depth interviews
• Telephone surveys
• Focus groups

Inform Engage Support Listen Engagement Team

Utilization Analysis

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Determine percentage of prime contract, subcontract dollars that went to M/Ws Authorities data

• Prime contracts, subcontracts
• Utilized vendors
• Other information

Telephone surveys

• Business information
• Lines of work
• Year established
• Race/ethnicity and gender

XX%

M/W UTILIZATION

• n Public Authorities

contracts

Availability Analysis

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• Prime contracts, subcontracts
• Other information

Telephone surveys

XX%

M/W AVAILABILITY for Public Authorities contracts

Measure percentage of contract dollars that M/Ws ready, willing, able to perform

• Lines of work
• Contractor role
• Year established
• Relative capacity
• Locations willing to work
• Qualifications and interest
• Race/ethnicity and gender

Authorities data

Disparity Analysis

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Assess differences between utilization and availability

XX%

M/W UTILIZATION

XX%

M/W AVAILABILITY

DISPARITY INDEX

• Disparities of 0.80 or less

considered substantial

• Assessment of explanations

for any disparities

Study Schedule

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Feb

Project Initiation

Jul May Mar

Final report

Apr Aug Sep Jun

Draft results Data collection and analyses Public hearings

Nov Oct Dec Jan Feb

2015 2016

Next Steps

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Develop legal framework and analysis Review, analyze Public Authorities data Conduct telephone surveys Conduct in-depth interviews and focus groups Conduct analyses of marketplace conditions

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Thank you!

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For more information about the disparity studies, please visit www.transportation.ohio.gov/disparity

Testimony

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Verbal or written testimony related to your experiences working in the Ohio marketplace

• Race- or gender- based discrimination
• Any barriers to success
• Payment issues
• Private or public sector work
• Prime contractor or subcontractor work
• Working with participating entities

Potential topics:

• hio.mwbe@bbcresearch.com