Advocacy
As an advocate for minority contractors, NAMC-UM actively monitors legal and legislative issues at state and local levels, helping to eliminate the barriers that hinder the work of minority contractors. The organization acts as the eyes and ears of its members, and regularly reports on key issues affecting minority contractors’ business operations.
NAMC-UM continues to seek legislative action on minority business issues, which include Affirmative Action compliance, the Miller Act, the Davis-Bacon Act and Procurement Reform. The organization had advocated hard for changes in a range of these and other laws that hinder minority business access to, or prevent minority business growth in, the region’s $4 billion/year construction industry.
Working with the Association of Women Contractors (AWC), the Construction Diversity Alliance will provide a unified voice for Minority- and Women-owned Contractors in advocating for participation in significant construction projects.