Pittsburgh Regional Disparity Study

Description

The Pittsburgh Regional Disparity Study Consortium (“Study Consortium”), comprised of the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP), Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Parking Authority, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA), and the Stadium Authority, desire to undertake all necessary and reasonable steps to ensure that minority-owned and woman-owned businesses (“M/WBEs”) are afforded equitable opportunities to participate in local government and other contracts within the relevant marketplace from which Study Consortium members routinely purchase significant quantities of goods and services. Study Consortium members are keenly interested in ensuring that their public contracting and purchasing funds are not spent in a manner that in any way contributes to or perpetuates the effects of marketplace discrimination. The Study Consortium is therefore seeking a consultant to conduct various work elements in a business disparity causation analysis study that: Determines from the most accurate available data sources the relative availability of minority-owned and women-owned businesses that are ready, willing and able to do business with