The Hispanic-owned company is headquartered in Chicago,IL., and was created in 2000 in Saint Robert, Missouri.

As a result, Navarro is currently the 18th largest Hispanic-owned company in the United States and the sixth largest in Florida.

The white-owned construction company, Adarand Constructors, of Colorado Springs, underbid a Hispanic-owned company by $1,700 on a $100,000 Federal highway guardrail project in southwestern Colorado.

Of the 126 contracts issued by the Resolution Trust Corporation, just 2 have been awarded to black-owned companies and 3 to Hispanic-owned companies, according to the documents.

MasTec, Inc. is the second largest Hispanic-owned company in the United States, and has over 13,000 employees in North America.

A nonminority company filed suit after it submitted the low bid but lost a subcontract on a Federal highway project to a Hispanic-owned company.

New Jersey is home to 36,116 Hispanic-owned companies, which Mr. Jara estimates are responsible for 128,000 jobs and generate nearly $7.5 billion in revenue.

The case today was brought by a white contractor who lost a job to a Hispanic-owned company that had submitted a higher bid for a subcontract to build guardrails on a Federal highway in Colorado.

They employed politically connected consultants, they say, because they believed that without them, a Hispanic-owned company from the South Bronx could not get a fair deal in Washington.

Gracious Home, which took in $30 million last year, is among the relatively small number of Hispanic-owned companies in the city with revenues in the multimillions.