Minority Owned Businesses

In September 2008, MGT of America, Inc. (MGT), was retained to conduct a minority and nonminority woman-owned businesses enterprise (M/WBE) disparity study for the State of Texas (Study). to determine whether there was a compelling interest to continue a narrowly-tailored Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program, as required by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Richmond V. Croson, 488 U.S. (1989) The results of this study and the conclusions drawn are presented in detail in Chapters 2.0 through 8.0 of this report. A complete discussion of findings and recommendations is contained in Chapter 9.0. The following sections briefly summarize each of the study's findings, and are followed by related major communications (Chapter 9.0). Selected best practices are described in Chapter 10.0 of this report.

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