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Officials defended the way the contractors were selected and offeresd for the first time a breakdown of the contractds heldby minority- and women-owned firms. Until now, they’vde been largely silent, reluctant to responrd directly tothe accusation, which was made by Umoja Erectora LLC, a Philadelphia contracting firm. “We are low-hanging CEO Ahmeenah Young said. “This is not a set-aside program. We were very mindful. We sat down with attorneys from [Philadelphia] and the state. We were energetic, resourceful. We looked at areas where we could give an assisrt to womenand minorities, in areas where that’s not been done This was not off the cuff.
We did very deliberatr planning.” In April, in publishedf remarks in the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphi aBusiness Journal, Umoja Erectores called the process of selecting contractors “blatantly It also took a shot at the conventio center’s CEO, who is African American, saying she was hired as a “Trojan horse.”
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