Legislation proposed in the Missouri state legislature would expand the state's definition of a minority business enterprise (MBE).The proposed bill, HB 1332, sponsored by Randy Pietzman (R-District 41), w...

Published Jan 17, 2018

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 10, 2018

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.A...

Published Jan 10, 2018

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo recently took action on two bills relevant to minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) in the state. While both bills are supported and seen as beneficial by many in the MWBE c...

Published Jan 05, 2018

Last month, Boston's City Council passed the Equity in City of Boston Contracts Ordinance, which codifies a number of aspects of the already-existing programs and procedures that exist for the benefit of minority- and wome...

Published Jan 02, 2018

The Devner City Council has unanimously approved a measure designed to foster greater payment security for minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) that are performing subcontracting work for city contra...

Published Dec 26, 2017

The City of Norwalk, in partnership between the local branch of the NAACP, recently launched a program to increase the number of Norwalk-based companies certified as Connecticut minority and women business e...

Published Dec 22, 2017

MassHousing spent more than $2.2 million on goods and services with 34 different minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) last year, exceeding the Commonwealth's own MWBE contracting goals and increasing their own spen...

Published Dec 04, 2017

A bill written for the purpose of improving and adding entrepreneurship training initiatives for veterans has been introduced in the U.S. Senate and has the bipartisan backing of Senator Dean Heller (R-...

Published Nov 30, 2017

The State of Texas has released it's annual Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Program report for Fiscal Year 2017. During this period, nearly 12 percent of all state contracts - equal to almost $2.5 billion - were ...

Published Nov 27, 2017

Since 1997, the City of St. Louis has maintained, by a continuously renewed executive order from the office of the mayor, a policy of awarding 25 percent of subcontracts on city projects to minority-owned businesses (MBEs)...

Published Nov 16, 2017

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed an executive order earlier this month setting a goal for the state's Cabinet-level agencies to purchase 10 percent of the dollar amount of goods and services they contract for...

Published Nov 16, 2017

African-American-owned businesses are largely being left out of City of Chicago contracts, according to recent figures from the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. While minority and women-owned business...

Published Nov 13, 2017

The public is invited to submit comments to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) regarding its proposed Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal for all Federal Highway Administratio...

Published Nov 01, 2017

A study is underway to determine whether small, minority, women, and other disadvantaged businesses are able to fairly compete for City of Tacoma contracts.With the help of an independent consult...

Published Oct 23, 2017