Federal contractors, how have EOs affected you so far?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

Anyone who is a small business (SB), WOSB, VOSB, MOSB should be worried. Preference was given to them with many contracts. Lots of contracting specifically created just for WOSB/VOSB/MOSB only. Without those protections and stipulations, do you think the Gov is going to award them contracts over the big guys? Pfft.

I work for a WOSB who definitely cannot compete with the big guys in our space for contracts without preference given. We'll see what happens. I have my own side consulting gig, so I'll be ok if things go to shit.

[Anonymous]

I'm a non-DOD contractor and do a lot of work for a targeted agency. The EOs will significantly hamper my work and will likely stop it altogether in some cases. I'm just really sad about it because I truly believe in the work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

Anyone who is a small business (SB), WOSB, VOSB, MOSB should be worried. Preference was given to them with many contracts. Lots of contracting specifically created just for WOSB/VOSB/MOSB only. Without those protections and stipulations, do you think the Gov is going to award them contracts over the big guys? Pfft.

I work for a WOSB who definitely cannot compete with the big guys in our space for contracts without preference given. We'll see what happens. I have my own side consulting gig, so I'll be ok if things go to shit.

Small business likely won't be touched.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

Anyone who is a small business (SB), WOSB, VOSB, MOSB should be worried. Preference was given to them with many contracts. Lots of contracting specifically created just for WOSB/VOSB/MOSB only. Without those protections and stipulations, do you think the Gov is going to award them contracts over the big guys? Pfft.

I work for a WOSB who definitely cannot compete with the big guys in our space for contracts without preference given. We'll see what happens. I have my own side consulting gig, so I'll be ok if things go to shit.

Many of these programs are required by statute. All of them are in federal regulations that would need to be repealed thru notice and comment rule making.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

Anyone who is a small business (SB), WOSB, VOSB, MOSB should be worried. Preference was given to them with many contracts. Lots of contracting specifically created just for WOSB/VOSB/MOSB only. Without those protections and stipulations, do you think the Gov is going to award them contracts over the big guys? Pfft.

I work for a WOSB who definitely cannot compete with the big guys in our space for contracts without preference given. We'll see what happens. I have my own side consulting gig, so I'll be ok if things go to shit.

Small business likely won't be touched.

Why can’t you compete? Maybe your WOSB needs to improve itself.

[Anonymous]

All of my meetings have been cancelled and communications ceased.

[Anonymous]

We have heard nothing.

[Anonymous]

None.

[Anonymous]

Nothing has changed. We feel terrible for the feds we work with daily and are trying to help as much as possible

[Anonymous]

We've ceased communications with two of our contractors that do work supporting a mix of DEIA and EEO work. In the background we're working with our contracting officer to cancel those contracts. I'm guessing they know what's up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later.

Why are we in a post-racial era? Who is able to make this decision?

[Anonymous]

Couldn’t care less about RTO, more concerned about EOs and how some target fields my org supports. Concerned I could be out a job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thrilled DEI is toast!

You have no idea how broadly the DEI net is being cast. It is not about HR DEI training. Research on race and diabetes and heart disease is being paused because it is considered DEI. Also a lot of stuff is just being paused at NIH and CDC. I have never seen anything like this in my 20 year career as a scientist at a govt contractor and truly fear for my job and family. And I'm sickened to know some people are gleeful over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Couldn’t care less about RTO, more concerned about EOs and how some target fields my org supports. Concerned I could be out a job.

Ok, you are only concerned about yourself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thrilled DEI is toast!

Hopefully your contacting firm is women, veteran or minority owned.