Milwaukee Looks to "Money Ball" in Consolidating Procurement to be Inclusive

The City of Milwaukee, WI, is a finalist in the fourth round of the City Accelerator, which is focused on using public procurement to help create inclusive economic opportunity. Your feedback on its story map will inform final selection of the cities.

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What is Milwaukee proposing?

The City of Milwaukee is looking to unify a legacy of inclusive, but fragmented procurement practices into one powerful system that achieves better results for its residents. The City Accelerator will assist the city in building partnerships with entrepreneurs, lenders and business development organizations, and use data to take a “money ball” approach to identifying promising sectors for contracting and business expansion support. Lessons learned from the cohort could lead to dynamically planned procurement practices and an inclusive sector analysis strategy for economic growth.

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For a detailed description of the mission and purpose of the City Accelerator’s cohort on Procurement for Inclusive Economic Opportunity, click here.

Public response is one of several criteria being used by the City Accelerator to select cohort cities. The number of ratings or comments by themselves do not determine final status or selection.