2022 Birmingham Disparity Study

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The 2022 Birmingham Disparity Study was a study of the impact of policies and procedures of the City of Birmingham had on opportunities for Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women Owned Business Enterprises (WBE) to participate in public contracts between the fiscal years 2015 and 2019. It was a follow-up to the most recent disparity study, conducted in 2007.

In his "The Woodfin Way" policy document, issued in March 2018, shortly after he took office, Mayor Randall Woodfin's transition team recommended creating a disparity study. In 2020 The city's Office of Business Diversity and Opportunity, headed by Coreata Houser, initiated the creation of such a study as preparation for launching its Valuing Inclusion To Accelerate and Lift (VITAL) program to support minority/women/disadvantaged business enterprises (M/W/DBE) in the city's procurement contracts.

In the wake of the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision in City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co., 488 U.S. 469, such studies have been considered important to establish that remedial procurement programs which factor race, gender and/or ethnicity into public decisions address a compelling public interest.

The city contracted with Griffin & Strong, a public policy consultancy in Atlanta, Georgia to conduct the study. GSPC subcontracted with the Nuriddin Law Company of Sandy Springs, Georgia to document anecdotal accounts of past discrimination, and with Creative Research Solutions of Tucker, Georgia to conduct an online survey of business owners. Houser and Monique Shorts from the City of Birmingham provided input to the project. Griffin & Strong returned the completed report in March 2022.

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