NARMAN INC. MINORITY CONTRACTORS REPORT
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Our mission is to educate,advocate and economically stimulate minority contracting firms in the state of Massachusetts.We wish to be an active resource for women owned construction businesses or minority program and construction managers, general contractors, subcontractors, manufacturers, suppliers, engineers, architects, attorneys, accountants, construction associations, technical assistance organizations and state/local government agencies.Our mission is to facillitate strong partnerships and alliances between primes and minority and women-owned businesses to increase contracting opportunities.
Our Vision
Our Vision. Build strong partnerships and alliances that create economic power and infkluence of minority and women-owned businesses to increase equity in contracting opportunities.
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05-25-2015
Corporations, the federal government, and state agencies all want to do business with minority-owned companies. The Department of Transportation, for example, requires that recipients of its funding award a percentage of contracts to minority-owned businesses and many large companies have goals for buying from minority-owned suppliers.The reason for such mandates is twofold. First, contracting with minority-owned businesses is important to customers: 'Corporate America understands that you cannot expect minorities to buy things when you haven't done business with minoritiesTo meet their objectives, private and public sector firms search for minority-owned suppliers through programs that have formal certification processes. If you're not certified, you can miss out on business ranging from a marketing opportunity to reduced-competition access to a public contract. MMCR collaborates with various minority and women business trade organizations and development centers to circulate information pertaining to entities that have expressed their willingness to accept notices of subcontracting opportunities from vendors to distribute to their minority and woman-owned business members.
04-25-2015
The three teams vying to build a massive hotel on the South Boston Waterfront have included prominent minority business partners, in the hope that diversity will help them win the bid for the project, according to documents disclosed Tuesday.
One of the bidders, Fallon Co., opted to pursue the proposal with a co-developer led by an African-American businessman. Two other teams opted to assemble broad groups of potential minority and female investors.
The hotel would be built across from the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center and have at least 1,200 rooms, rivaling the Sheraton in the Back Bay as the biggest in the city.
The Massachusetts Port Authority and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority say they will weigh the diversity of the bidders heavily in their scoring. The goal: to use the roughly $800 million project to draw new faces into the local development scene.
“For this stage of the game, it seems like we did have the impact we were seeking in terms of trying to diversify, a little bit, who has a seat at the table in Boston’s development,” Thomas Glynn, Massport’s chief executive, said Tuesday after the investors were disclosed.
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