The move comes with more money and staff to certify small- and minority-owned businesses, so they can compete for lucrative public contracts.
Olivia Trevieso of OCI Group briefed the South Central Texas Regional Certification Agency board on a vote to absorb the agency by Supply SA.The understaffed and underfunded agency responsible for certifying small and minority-owned businesses so they can compete for public contracts will be absorbed by Supply SA, a recently launched CEO-led effort to simplify procurement processes across their organizations.
In 2021, federal, state and local contracting opportunities in the San Antonio area represented more than $9 billion — $4.2 billion of that from local government contracts alone. An audit by the Texas Comptrollers Office last spring found that 90% of the Historically Underutilized Business certifications it reviewed “were missing information required to validate” the certifications.
In April, the San Antonio City Council committed to spending up to $162,000 toward Supply SA’s first two-year budget of $608,000, with the other member organizations paying the rest.
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