In Florida I believe the state has a Minority program in place where a VAR can register with the Dept of Business Regulation or one of the other agencies. It has been a while since I was forced to use the list so I would have to dig a lot to find it. I would almost bet that each state as well as the Feds have a similar program in place. Later we got forced to a central purchasing authority which restricted what we could purchase. Just be warned at least in Florida the list is kind of bogus from my experience. I found a couple of times a list VAR was actually only registered in the minorities name but the actual people/person behind the company was not a minority. The ones I found were female "owned" but actually operated by the husband/male partner of the listed owner. It would be a good program if it is actually monitored and checked but the list I dealt with was not. If you find a good VAR keep them on a short list. Good ones usually are very helpful about finding other VARs for you, at least from what I remember. Good luck Jon Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 08:26:58 -0400 Subject: [NTSysADM] Minority owned VAR? From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Hi everyone, As part of our new procurement process, we need three bids for everything, including one from a minority owned vendor. Can anyone recommend a good minority owned VAR in the US? Or a suggestion for even finding one? Thanks! Eric
