Businesses owned by women and minorities made substantial progress in winning state government contracts in the past two years, according to a report released Tuesday.
Minority and women businesses received 21 percent of the $4.5 billion in state procurement made in fiscal 2005, representing $954 million, an increase of about $400 million in the two years since a commission headed by Lt. Gov. Michael Steele revamped the program.
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