re: BR Metro Council Funds $300,000 “Disparity” Study of City Contracts

Well not to mention that the courts have stated you can’t show bias to a particular race of peoples.

The safe ground as I have advised my clients is to focus on building a robust outreach and education program. Creating goals with random feel good numbers attached creates downward pressure to comply and does nothing but compromise the integrity of the public procurement process.

90% of the crap that comes out of these studies could and should be challenged in court.

I recently had to explain how “discounting lowest bid” compromised the point of lowest bid and how they would be facing a law suit before Spring if that’s the route they chose to go legislatively.

But you’re right. People that write the rules have no clue or perspective