Women Business Enterprise: Comparison of years 2004 and 2005 (California Public Utilities Commission, published September 2006)
Of the ten largest utility companies in California, five met the 5% from women-owned businesses procurement goal in the years 2004 and 2005. The California Public Utilities Commission created a goal for the utility companies of California to procure 5% of their goods from women-owned suppliers in May of 1988
Topic: Should the new administration offer incentives for investing in women-owned businesses?
Category: Institutional (Image)
What is it? A bar graph depicting the progress ten utility companies have made toward reaching their procurement with women-owned businesses goal of 5% between 2004 and 2005.
Author: California Public Utilities Commission
Publication Information: California Public Utilities Commission Report to the Legislature on Year 2005 Utility Procurement of Goods, Services, and Fuel from Women-, Minority-, and Disable Veteran- Owned Business Enterprises. Submitted September 2006. Image Copyright 2006 California Public Utilities Commission Report.
Location: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/Graphics/59674-2.gif
Accessed: March 12, 2009. 21:15 PST
Support:
California Public Utilities Commission- This institution regulates privately owned electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies.
Southern California Gas Company- A Sempra Energy Utility company.
Southern California Edison- Leads the nation as a renewable energy provider.
Both SoCal Gas and SCE surpassed their procurement goal of 5% from women-owned businesses by more than 2% in 2005. The California Public Utilities Commission used their data along with eight other utilities to measure their individual abilties to attain the procurement goal of 5%.
Audience and Agenda: The intended audiences for the report are California Legislators and the American public. According to the report from The California Public Utilities Commission, the data from which the graph was compiled comes from the 20th annual report to the Legislature, pursuant to Public Utilities (PU) Code Section 8283, on progress reported by utilities in procuring goods, services and fuel from women-, minority-, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises (WMDVBEs).
According to quantcast.com, the agency’s homepage, cpuc.ca.gov, reaches approximately 82,626 U.S. people monthly. The website appeals to a slightly older, male, well educated and wealthy group.
Usefulness: The results of the 2004 and 2005 California Public Utilities Commission report to Legislature show that the ten largest utility companies are making progress toward giving 5% of contracts to women-owned businesses. In 2005, five of the ten were still not meeting the goal, but this is explained by the fact that each of these businesses have only been in business for between four and five years. In the majority of states throughout the nation, the 5% goal for businesses to procure from women-owned businesses (which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on a federal level) is not being achieved as well as in California. This would suggest that the new administration should focus its contract procurement requirement efforts on a state level instead of federal.
Works Cited:
http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/REPORT/59674.htm
http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/Graphics/59674-2.gif
http://www.socalgas.com/index/
http://www.quantcast.com/cpuc.ca.gov
Filed under: Institutional Sources, Source Notes Tagged: | Procurement opportunities, women-owned businesses, women-owned firms
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