> You're required to have a certified minority partner. Even if they contribute absolutely nothing besides a physical disability, skin color, or gender. You can imagine all the corruption around this & 'buying partners.'
Anyone who has done government contracting has seen this, too. Generally, what happens is the prime contractor who the government actually hires must be underrepresented minority-owned. That contractor might just be one person who own a shell LCC, whose job is to simply "be Native Alaskan" or something. Then that prime will subcontract out to regular, name brand companies that actually do all the work. As far as I've seen, this is a pretty common and well-understood pattern, at least in mil/aerospace.
Anyone who has done government contracting has seen this, too. Generally, what happens is the prime contractor who the government actually hires must be underrepresented minority-owned. That contractor might just be one person who own a shell LCC, whose job is to simply "be Native Alaskan" or something. Then that prime will subcontract out to regular, name brand companies that actually do all the work. As far as I've seen, this is a pretty common and well-understood pattern, at least in mil/aerospace.