Revised City of South Bend Disparity Study Report

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IV. UTILIZATION AND AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS FOR THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND CONTRACT DOLLARS A. Contract Data Sources We analyzed contract data for the calendar years 2015 through 2017 for the City of South Bend (the City)'s contracts. We received a Final Contract Data File from the City which contained 278 contracts, worth $103,162,022.37. Of these prime contracts there were 327 associated subcontracts valued at $25,523,221.36. This Final Contract Data File was used to determine the geographic and product mar- kets for the analyses, to estimate the utilization of M/WBEs on those contracts, and to calculate M/WBE availability in the City's marketplace. B. Summary of Findings As described fully below, we used the Final Contract Data File to determine the City's utilization of M/WBEs in its geographic and product markets. This analysis yielded the Final Utilization Data File. Next, we employed the "custom census" methodology to determine the set of firms that could have been utilized by the City. These two analyses yielded the following results: The utilization of M/WBEs was 11.0 percent; and M/WBE weighted availability was 6.0 percent. C. The City of South Bend's Product and Geographic Markets A defensible disparity study must determine empirically the industries that com- prise the City's product or industry market. The accepted approach is to analyze those detailed industries, as defined by 6 -digit North American Industry, Classifica- tion System ("NAICS") codes 116 that make up at least 75 percent of the prime con - 116. www.census.gov/eos/www/naics. O 2020 Colette Holt & Associates, All Rights Reserved. 49