Procurement

By pursuing innovative strategies to help connect businesses in the region with procurement opportunities, the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has helped revolutionize the procurement economy.

The American dream lives in the ambitions, the hustle, and the innovation of small businesses.

This paper offers principles and ideas on public procurement reform to ensure that more jobs are high quality, secure, and equitably accessible.

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

Public procurement should do more to reward good companies, promote job quality, and offer accessible and inclusive opportunities for all.

Local government purchasing, including how a jurisdiction decides what to buy, and how they decide who to buy from, makes a huge difference in how innovative and equitable that government will be.

NOVEMBER 19, 2020 – Local governments are big buyers. But for too long, how and with whom our local governments spend their money has reinforced economic inequities in our country.

In the US, state and city governments collectively spend $1.6 trillion per year. But for too long, how and with whom local governments spend their money has reinforced economic inequities.

8 recommendations for what city governments can do to increase the number of “smart cities,” “civic tech,” or “urban tech” procurements awarded to companies led by women and people of color.

Business practices change when money talks. Let’s pull procurement dollars off the sidelines and into the action for change and progress.