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 (OSD) 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.

The OSD has balanced its focus to not only Facilities related new construction and major renovations, but also the District's Small Business Enterprise Goods and Service expenditures through its Lawson financial software.  The OSD was able to account for a total of over 34.1 million dollars spent with small business enterprises by our divisions, departments, and school sites.  When measuring formal Goods and Services Bid Opportunities, 32% of the eligible expenditures were earned by SBE vendors.

Construction managers awarded an additional 1.6 million dollars of subcontracts to small, women and minority owned businesses as part of the district's new construction and renovation program.  The 1.6 million dollars of subcontractor bid awards won by OSD registered vendors represents 33.1% of all subcontractor bid awards.

The entire encouragement program, including construction, goods and services, utilized 202 vendors, a program record, that are registered in the OSD database.

The Annual Report also reflects 53 schools/centers and over $715,000 as FY 2014 outcomes from the "Use a Small Business" School Campaign.