(a) The General Assembly finds: (1) To the extent minority-owned businesses are given fair opportunities to compete, all Arkansans benefit; (2) During 2002, the State of Arkansas spent nine hundred million four hundred thousand dollars ($900,400,000) procuring goods and services; (3) Although the state possesses more than seven thousand (7,000) minority-owned businesses, less than three-tenths […]
For the purposes of this chapter: (1) “Minority” means the same as in § 1-2-503; and (2) “State agency” means any office, department, board, commission, bureau, division, public corporation, agency, institution of higher learning, or instrumentality of this state.
(a) A state agency shall include in all requests for proposals and requests for qualifications, language that encourages minority participation in each request for proposals and request for qualifications issued by the state agency. (b) (1) State agency requests for proposals and requests for qualifications shall take into consideration minority inclusion in the proposed project. […]
(a) (1) The State Procurement Director shall track data regarding minority participation in state contracts that exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). (2) The data shall include, but not be limited to, information regarding: (A) The dollar amount for each contract awarded to a minority-owned business; (B) The total dollar amount spent on contracts by each […]
