Status Report: Small Business Enterprise Program (Attachment Added)

The objective of this report is to recognize the District’s effort to reinvest tax dollars into the Tampa Bay area’s small business community. On a periodic basis, the Office of Supplier Diversity captures the performance of the District staff and its prime contractors in the utilization of small, women and/or minority owned businesses. The value of this report provides the Board and public a measurement of the District’s program efficiency and the response to the District’s performance expectation.

In fiscal years 2004 and 2005 (the period of July 1, 2003 – June 30, 2005), small, women, and minority business participation in new construction and major renovation totaled $21,940,034. For the first time in the history of the District’s Small Business Encouragement Program, the percentage of construction tax dollars reinvested with certified, Office of Supplier Diversity (OSD) registered small business firms exceeded 30% - at 33.6% of all subcontractor bid awards during the subject period. As a part this analysis, women and minority owned construction related subcontractors and suppliers registered with the OSD, performed work valued at $16,466,094 during the subject period. Again, at an all–time high of 25.2% of total work awarded by the District.

For the first time, with the implementation in FY 2005 of the Lawson financial software, the Office of Supplier Diversity was provided the capacity to measure District non–construction related expenditures with OSD registered small business enterprises. The OSD was able to account for an additional 22 million dollars that was spent with small business enterprises by our divisions, departments, and school sites from July 1, 2004 – June 30, 2005.

Priority 2.0 (3) Increase participation in the Minority Business Enterprise Program for inclusion and continued growth

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