Compliance

The State of Arkansas supports equal opportunity as well as economic development in every sector, ensuring that 15% of the total amount expended in state-funded and state-directed public construction programs and in the purchase of goods and services for the state each fiscal year is paid to minority businesses. The percentage breakdown is as listed below:

• Ten percent (10%) for minority business enterprises with two percent (2%) allocated for service-disabled veteran-owned minority business enterprises; and eight percent (8%) for all other minority business enterprises; and
• Five percent (5%) for women-owned business enterprises

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Find names, phone numbers, and email addresses of Arkansas' Minority Business Officers.

See the list here.

• 2021 Fiscal Year Minority Business Spend Report
• 2020 Fiscal Year Minority Business Spend Report
• 2019 Fiscal Year Minority Business Spend Report
• 2018 Fiscal Year Minority Business Spend Report
• 2017 Fiscal Year Minority Business Spend Report

The Portal is used by state Minority and Women-Owned Business Officers (MWBOs) to report funds expended with Minority and Women-Owned Enterprises (MWBEs) by state agencies and institutions.