[DugwayDuke]

I’ve seen instances in the DoD where, generally speaking, a certain percentage of each program must be awarded to minority set-aside contractors. Often these set-aside contractors were owned by a minority figure head whose only function was to qualify the contractor for these set asides. All too often these contractors were unqualified to perform the work. The contracting agency made the government contracting agency responsible for training the unqualifed to perform the work.

[Fresh Wind]

...a certain percentage of each program must be awarded to minority set-aside contractors.

Very often the minority contractors are nothing more than shell companies that subcontract the actual work to non-minority companies.

[Myrddin]

It is very common to have to shell company owned by a black woman. The hooks the minority/woman owned enterprise set-aside. It is nothing but a shell that hires real contractors to do the work. It is rare to find the actual work being performed by the principals.