Fair enough, I won't contradict your experience in the electronic test/measurement sector. I would like to mention, though, that I've literally never seen a co

Fair enough, I won't contradict your experience in the electronic test/measurement sector. I would like to mention, though, that I've literally never seen a contract issued by a state agency or local unit of government to purchase electronic component testing services or equipment (either directly or a larger contract with a subcontracted piece for that). That's not to say it never happens, just that most of the contracting dollars I see spent are on construction and personal services (counseling and social work, IT services, and the like). I would suggest that your experience probably isn't reflective of the disadvantaged business community as a whole, and I suspect any empirical evidence we could unearth (i.e. the public purchasing records, and so on) would support that claim pretty unambiguously.