Council adopts new purchasing and bidding procedures despite controversy
The new process allows the city to award projects under $250K without a formal bidding process.
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The new process allows the city to award projects under $250K without a formal bidding process.
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The measure was almost tabled for a future meeting and ultimately passed with a 3-2 vote. Augusta Turner, chair of the Ouachita NAACP's economic development committee, argued that the 16.7% of the total required to go to minority or women-owned companies called Disadvantaged Business Enterprises was not enough because the city is 60% Black. Engineer Kim Golden explained how the projects get broken down by component to figure out the fraction that can reasonably go to DBEs. Golden was concerned about raising the percent because the project already had to be let for bids once with a 19.9% DBE...