One Florida Web Site
The One Florida Initiative was enacted to ensure the promise of Florida's future is shared by all of its residents, regardless of their race, ethnicity, neighborhood or background.
Its mission is to unite Floridians behind a shared vision of opportunity and diversity. The goal was and continues to be to increase opportunity and diversity in the state's universities and in state contracting without using policies that discriminate or that pit one racial group against another.

Office of Supplier Diversity
Under the One Florida Initiative the Office of Supplier Diversity (OSD) works to reflect the state's commitment to fair and equal opportunity for all to compete for state contracts, while enthusiastically embracing diversity so that vendors reflect the full diversity of the citizens of Florida. The OSD is responsible for measuring the state's success as it relates to minority spending, matchmaking viable-growth-oriented minority businesses with purchasing/contract opportunities, investigating complaints of discrimination and enhancing minority business development.

Department of Education's One Florida Coordinators
Representatives within the agency

90 Day Spending Plan
Printable Version
Projected spending for the department

Minority Business Classification Codes
The minority business codes and what they represent.

Advertised Procurements
The Florida Department of Education advertises and posts the agency decisions for all Invitations to Bid, Requests for Proposals, Invitations to Negotiate and Single Sources on the Florida Vendor Bid System.
Visit the Florida Vendor Bid System
At this site under the Agency drop down box select the Department of Education and click on Initiate Search.
Vendors are responsible for monitoring that site for amendments or revisions to original advertisements.

Getting Certified as a Minority Business
Click on Eligibility Criteria for the criteria and Certification Application Materials

Getting Registered to do business with the State of Florida
Information on vendor registration

Loan Mobilization Program
The Loan Mobilization Program is administered by the Department Of Management Services and was created to promote the development of minority business enterprises. It assists minority business enterprises by facilitating working capital loans.

Executive Order 99-281
The Florida Constitution provides that all natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and that no person shall be deprived of any right because of race or national origin.
Florida's government has a solemn obligation to respect and affirm these principles in its policies relating to employment, education and contracting.