After coming under attack for not awarding enough government contracts to women- and minority-owned firms, Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday announced a new goal of awarding 30 percent of city contract dollars to such firms by 2021.

De Blasio also announced the creation of a Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women Owned Enterprises, while pushing for legislation in Albany that would allow a vendor’s status as a women- or minority-owned firm to factor into the awarding of certain contracts.

The mayor put the fiscal 2016 award rate for women- and minority-owned businesses at 14.3 percent of total contract dollars.