Decision In Procurement Case Could Set Precedent

摘要

A November 2008 federal court decision overturning the law that established a 5 percent goal for awarding Department of Defense (DOD) contracts to socially- and economically-disad-vantaged small businesses could affect other minority contracting programs, according to procurement observers. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Rothe Development Corp. v. Department of Defense and Department of the Air Force stated that the government did not have sufficient evidence of "pervasive, nationwide racial discrimination" by DOD to justify a race-based contracting preference program.