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Portsmouth MWBE director outlines policy revisions, reports utilization at 2.4%
Summary
Rebecca Atkins, the city's MWBE program lead, presented proposed policy changes and outreach plans to raise minority-, women- and service-disabled-veteran-owned contracting; council pressed for stronger enforcement, quarterly reporting and inclusion in major project committees.
Rebecca Atkins, Portsmouth's MWBE program lead, told the city council at its April 30 work session that the city's fiscal-year 2025 spending with minority- and women-owned firms was roughly 5% and that current utilization now sits at about 2.4%.
Atkins outlined a set of proposed changes to strengthen the MWBE policy, including more robust subcontractor and good-faith-effort forms, targeted vendor outreach, departmental training and the use of the Munis contracts module to track subcontractors and project goals. "Our fiscal year 25 spending was only around 5%. Today it is sitting at 2.4%," Atkins said, citing the data she compiled for the presentation.
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