DISPARITY STUDY Presented by Kevin Williams , BBC Managing Director - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Presented by

Kevin Williams, BBC Managing Director Nancy West, Exstare Managing Member kwilliams@bbcresearch.com nancy@exstarefederalservices.com Sameer Bawa, BBC Director Andres Ramirez, Ramirez Group President sbawa@bbcresearch.com andres@ramirezgroup.com James Davis, BBC Research Associate jdavis@bbcresearch.com

2015 Nevada Transportation Consortium

DISPARITY STUDY

PROJECT TEAM

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BBC

Denver, CO

Kevin Williams Sameer Bawa James Davis

Holland & Knight

National Legal Expert

Keith Wiener

Exstare

National Disparity Study Expert

Nancy West

Ramirez Group

Local Research Expert

Andres Ramirez

Customer Research Intl.

National Survey Expert

Sanjay Vrudhula

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

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

(including goal-setting)

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

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DISPARITY STUDY

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

Informational Efforts

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

Participation Efforts

• Public meetings
• In-depth interviews
• Telephone surveys

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UTILIZATION ANALYSIS

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

• Contract data
• Vendor data
• Other information

Survey data

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

XX%

M/W PARTICIPATION

• n agency contracts

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AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS

Agency data

• Contract data
• Other information

Survey data

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

XX%

M/W AVAILABILITY for agency contracts

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

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DISPARITY ANALYSIS

Assess differences between utilization and availability

XX%

M/W PARTICIPATION

XX%

M/W AVAILABILITY

DISPARITY INDEX

• Disparities of 0.80 or less

considered substantial

• Assessment of explanations

for any disparities

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STUDY SCHEDULE

Dec Apr Sep Aug

Project Initiation

Jan Nov Sep

Final reports

Oct Feb Mar

Draft data Data collection and analyses Public hearings

May Jun Jul Aug

2015 2016

Draft reports

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THANK YOU!