The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) has recently announced the opening of a number of community outreach offices that will act in support of ongoing PANYNJ redevelopment projects. The offices will be o...

Published Mar 05, 2019

Nashville Mayor David Briley signed an executive order recently designating LGBT-owned businesses (LGBTBEs) as a recognized category in procurement for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (als...

Published Feb 15, 2019

The Virginia Beach City Council is proposing a number of measures aimed at increasing MWBE participation on city contracts following the findings from a public contracting disparity study. Foremost among the proposals is t...

Published Feb 13, 2019

The City of Greensboro is mulling changes to its MWBE contracting inclusion procedures, in order to increase MWBE participation in city contracting. These moves come after the release last year of a disparity study found t...

Published Feb 11, 2019

The City of Memphis, Tennessee, has launched the Buy901 website, which functions as a free and public directory of over 500 local, small, minority-, and women-owned businesses. All businesses included i...

Published Feb 05, 2019

New York State Senator Brad Hoylman has reintroduced the New York State Supplier Diversity Act (last introduced in 2016) to the current session of the state senate. The bill would establish a Division of Supplier Dive...

Published Jan 30, 2019

The Mechanical Contractors Association (MCA) of Memphis recently filed suit against Shelby County, seeking to halt the implementation of the county's Minority- and Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) program....

Published Jan 30, 2019

The Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018 became federal law in December of 2018, however, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has issued an opinion stating that it is not yet effective until SBA rulemaking ...

Published Jan 24, 2019

The Service-Disabled Veterans Small Business Continuation Act (H.R. 5044) has recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives, though it has not yet passed the Senate. The bill was introducted by Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohi...

Published Jan 18, 2019

The Disadvanted Business Enterprise (DBE) Program review panel for the City of Frederick recently put out a report on DBE participation in city procurement. The data studied was from fiscal year 2017, and revealed tha...

Published Jan 15, 2019

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently signed an executive directive directing the Department of Management, Budget and Technology in that state to create a procurement preference for "geographically-disadvantaged bus...

Published Jan 10, 2019

Effective January 1st, the maximum allowable gross annual revenue (GAR) for a business to be designated a very small business enterprise (VSBE) by the Port of Los Angeles will be increased to $5 million. This follows the p...

Published Jan 07, 2019

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) recently announced that the disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) annual participation goal for federally funded transportation projects in California would be raise...

Published Jan 07, 2019

Clark Public Utilities is updating its Small Works Roster for public works projects under Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000) and Clark Public Utilities’ Professional Engineering & Architects Roster....

Published Jan 02, 2019

Clark Public Utilities of Clark County, Washington, has established vendor lists for supplying materials, equipment and supplies under RCW 54.04.082 and 39.04.190 which allows the Utility to publish notice of the existence...

Published Jan 02, 2019