MWBE Participation Data

Dataset Summary About this data: MWBE is a federal program administered through each state. Each state individually establishes its own certification program and requirements. In 2018, the City of Rochester set new goals for the use of minority and women owned businesses (MWBEs) on City contracts. The City of Rochester is committed to providing opportunities for MWBE businesses to participate in and become an integral part of the City's procurement process. This table has information on agreements between primary contractors and consultants (primes) and the City of Rochester, as well as the subcontractors used by those primes. This report pulls information on contracts with payments only. Recently entered agreements may be excluded if there have not been any payments to contractors yet. Data Dictionary: ContractNumber: Unique number assigned to the prime contract in the City of Rochester's financial system. ContractTitle: Title of the agreement between the prime contractor and the City of Rochester. ContractValue: Total value of the agreement between the prime contractor and the City of Rochester. DiversityGoal: This is the percentage of the total value of the agreement that the prime contractor intends to award to minority-owned, women-owned or disadvantaged business entities. Whether or not an MWBE or DBE sub-contractor will count towards this calculation is determined by the prime contractors’ selection when entering sub-contractors into the B2GNow system. AssignedDepartment: The City of Rochester department or bureau responsible for managing the project. ContractType: Agreements are grouped into types depending on what the City is purchasing through the contract. Terms are agreements between the City of Rochester and a contractor to provide a product or service for a set amount of time, or term. Construction is for a set project to build, renovate or update City buildings, properties and infrastructure. Professional Services are agreements for services which require special skills, knowledge, training, expertise, or a high degree of creativity. TierSortOrder: B2GNow generated number assigned to sub-contractors on a project. The numbers are assigned starting at 1 in the order the sub-contractors are entered into the system by the prime contractor. VendorType: This indicates if the business is the prime or sub-contractor. Prime: The business who has made an agreement directly with the City of Rochester to complete a project or provide goods and services. Sub-Contractor: Business hired by the prime contractor or consultant to help complete the agreement with the City of Rochester. BusinessName: Name of the company. GoalType: Indicates if the business is certified as a minority or woman owned business or a certified disadvantaged business entity. Businesses may be certified as both minority and women owned businesses. If businesses have dual certification, their participation is counted to either MBE or WBE goals, based on the selection made by the prime contractor. Blank – This business is not certified. DBE – This business is certified as a disadvantaged business entity (DBE) and their agreement will count toward DBE participation goals. The disadvantaged business enterprise program is administered by the federal Department of Transportation. MBE – This business is New York State certified minority-owned business. WBE – This business is New York State certified woman-owned business. ForCredit: Yes or Blank, indicating whether a certified firm will count toward the project’s participation goals. Ethnicity: Indicates ethnicity or race of MWBE and DBE business owners. Gender: Indicates gender of MWBE and DBE business owners. TotalAward: Total value of agreement between either the prime and City of Rochester or the sub-contractor and the prime. AwardShare: This is an adjustment to show the amount of the contract that will be performed by the business less any sub-contracting agreements. It is calculated differently for Primes and Sub-Contractors. For Primes: SubcontractValue = Total Award – Sum of Sub-Contractor Agreement Values. For Sub-contractors: Award Share = Total Award TotalPayment: The total amount paid to date for the agreement. City: City of the primary business address. State: State of the primary business address. ZIP: ZIP code of the primary business address. Source: This information is pulled from B2GNow, the City of Rochester’s platform for tracking prime contractor and prime consultants’ payments to sub-contractors and their use of MWBEs and DBEs on City contracts. The City began using B2GNow for new contracts in 2019. All agreements with MWBE and DBE goals were entered into B2GNow beginning in 2020. All public works consulting contracting with MWBE goals began being entered in 2021. Data from 2019-2020 may not capture the full use of MWBE and DBE contractors. Last Update: June 30, 2022