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Nice try but it doesn’t work that way.
I was a project manager and the “meebe-weebe” requirements were actually easily avoided.
All it required was naming a minority owned or woman owned firm as one of the bidders. My company had favorite vendors so he MWB/WBE contractors never won the bids but we used them as “attempts “ and that was enough.
After a while we had to pay them to provide estimates because they never won them.
And before you bitch at me… this was not my choice. This was my company.
Not in NYC and other places. you have to show at the end of the job you met the contract required goals, in actual spending on MBE/WBE subcontractors.