Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced in a press release that the Bureau of Diversity, Inclusion and Small Business Opportunities (BDISBO) has released its annual report for 2021, which details a 30 percent increase ove...

Published Jan 03, 2022

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has announced that the state has exceeded its minority- and woman-owned business (MWBE) utilization goal for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. The goal for the period was set at 30 percent, an...

Published Dec 22, 2021

The Maryland Department of Transportation's (MDOT) Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) has announced that effective January 1st, 2022, the personal net worth cap for firms certified as minority-owned businesses (...

Published Dec 22, 2021

California Assembly Bill 1574 (also known as the Leveraging State Procurement for an Inclusive Economic Recovery Act of 2021), which was approved by the Governor in October of 2021 and has been passed into law, would requi...

Published Dec 22, 2021

The Travis County Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program is looking into the possibility of adding LGBT-owned business enterprises (LGBTBEs) to its procedures. The move comes after the presentation of a study by...

Published Dec 16, 2021

The Biden-Harris administration recently announced a slate of federal procurement reforms which are taken with the aim of increasing utilization of small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs), a category of minority-owned busine...

Published Dec 10, 2021

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) has announced that it exceeded its disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) participation goal for the 2020-2021 fiscal year ending on September 30, 2021. Th...

Published Dec 10, 2021

The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council published a final rule on September 10, 2021 clarifying how contracting officers should evaluate a "good faith effort" (GFE) made by a prime contractor to comply with a smal...

Published Nov 24, 2021

The Mayor and Board of Aldermen for the City of Frederick have approved municipal legislation which will create Minority and Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) program complete with contract participation goals and a Small B...

Published Nov 24, 2021

United States Representatives Trey Hollingsworth and Frank Mrvan, both of Indiana, have introduced a congressional bill, H.R.5953, which would raise the current federal contracting participation goal for Service-Disabled V...

Published Nov 17, 2021

Harford County Executive Barry Glassman has announced that the county will begin a disparity study into the contract awards it makes. Specifically, the study will examine if there are disparities in awards made to minority...

Published Nov 08, 2021

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) has announced that it will launch a new fund for the benefit of minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDVOBs) t...

Published Nov 02, 2021

New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer has released the annual Making the Grade report for fiscal year 2021. The report is issued by his office and grades City agencies according to their utilization of minority- and ...

Published Oct 20, 2021

The California state legislature has recently passed a bill, Assembly Bill 1574, which authorizes certain parties to bring a civil action for violations in which it has been fraudulently represented that a certified disabl...

Published Oct 14, 2021

The City of Gainesville is conducting a disparity study into conditions for minority and woman-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) that do business or attempt to do business with the City. The findings of the study, should ...

Published Oct 06, 2021