The Ohio Department of Administrative Services (DAS) has announced that on the first day of operations for its new Women-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) program, it has already certified 817 WBEs. The progra...

Published Nov 02, 2020

East Baton Rouge Parish is developing a new certification program for businesses owned by women, veterans and minorities. It will be known as the Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Certification Pr...

Published Nov 02, 2020

The City of Jackson, Mississippi, has set its triennial disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) contract participation goals, as it is required to do as a recipient of federal transportation funding.The goal ha...

Published Oct 29, 2020

The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, as a recipient of federal funding, is obligated to develop contract participation goals for Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (ACDBEs) on a triennial basis. I...

Published Oct 26, 2020

The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) for the City of West Palm Beach set a small business (SBE) participation goal of 15 percent after being established in April of 2019 by Mayor Keith A. James. The OEO's third qu...

Published Oct 22, 2020

The Orange County Board of Supervisors has unanimously passed a new Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) Preference Policy for county procurement. The stated goal of the sponsors of the policy was to create county-l...

Published Oct 20, 2020

The North Carolina Department of Administration (NCDOA) is offering $12 million in COVID-19 recovery grants to historically underutilized businesses (HUBs) and disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs). The grant prog...

Published Oct 12, 2020

The Ohio Department of Administrative Services (DAS), at the recommendation of a working group of minority and economically disadvantaged business owners, has moved to institute several new rule changes with the goal ...

Published Oct 12, 2020

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has adopted a prompt-payment policy from small business enterprises (SBEs) acting as primes on VTA contracts. The policy specificies that such SBEs shall be paid within...

Published Oct 05, 2020

Caltrans is hosting a lengthy series of professional development and outreach sessions in advance of its upcoming disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) Disparity Study, which is currently underway and the results of whic...

Published Oct 01, 2020

The Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA) has released its disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) participation goal for fiscal years 2021 through 2023. As a recipient of federal transportation funding, CATA is req...

Published Sep 29, 2020

Earlier in the Spring of 2020, the City of Dallas completed a disparity study that examined whether there were disparities between the availability and utilization of minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) on th...

Published Sep 18, 2020

The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus is advocating for the passage of House Bill 5824, which would make numerous reforms aimed at improving equity in the realm of state contracting, particularly by expanding and...

Published Sep 16, 2020

The Indianapolis City-County Council, in a 20-5 vote, has passed Proposal 231, meant to increase the utilization of minority, women, veteran and disabled-owned businesses in government contracting.Among ot...

Published Sep 16, 2020

The election taking place on November 3rd, 2020, will bring an array of choices before California voters, and one of those choices of particular potential interest to minority- and women-owned businesses (M/WBEs) ...

Published Sep 10, 2020