A state auditor's review has found that the N.C. Department of Administration was not re-certifying businesses as minority-owned and women-owned, a status that gives them a better chance of winning state contracts.

A deputy director in the department's Historically Underutilized Business Office confirmed that roughly 20 businesses had lost the designation because of a computer glitch, the review said.

The review also found 60 vendors doing business with the state that qualified for HUB status but did not have it, Dan Kane reports.

Another five had the designation but shouldn't have, the review said. They had been "inactivated" by the HUB office, or had not been listed on the office's web site as HUB businesses.

More after the jump.

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