In an effort to get more minority, women, and disabled-person owned businesses (MBEs / WBEs) involved in government contracting, Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced last week that the state will aim to sp...

Published Jan 11, 2017

Applications for inclusion in the Small Works Roster will be accepted from licensed and bonded contractors for the types of work listed on our website. You may register your company at http://www.ebidexchange.com/clarkpud/...

Published Jan 05, 2017

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 05, 2017

Shelby County will be getting a minority and women-owned business enterprise (MWBE) program.In an 11-2 vote, the Shelby County Commission approved a measure that will require the County and companies looki...

Published Dec 29, 2016

Express Lane Builders, a Joint Venture, requests bids bids/proposals from certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) firms for the following scopes of work on the I-15 Express Lane Design/Build project.S...

Published Dec 22, 2016

According to figures released last week by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), Disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) are doing more business with the department, but still not at the levels expected....

Published Dec 13, 2016

Shelby County officials are due to vote on ordinances relevant to small businesses and minority and women-owned businesses on December 14th.The relevant measures, proposed by the Shelby County Commission, invol...

Published Dec 08, 2016

Lemanski & Rockwell Architects is requesting qualifications from DVBEs interested in participating as potential subconsultants in the following services areas within the San Francisco Bay Area for public school design ...

Published Dec 06, 2016

Hamilton + Aitken Architects is requesting qualifications from DVBEs interested in participating as potential subconsultants in the following services areas within the San Francisco Bay Area for public school design and co...

Published Nov 22, 2016

A federal court ruled on the legality of the federal disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) program last week.In its decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit found that the DBE program is na...

Published Nov 18, 2016

The City Council of Columbia unanimously approved a policy resolution last week directed at encouraging minority and women-owned business (M/WBE) participation in city contracting.The plan recommends that the c...

Published Nov 15, 2016

The Shelby County Commission is due to vote on several recommendations made by an ad hoc general government committee designed to boost minority and women-owned businesses (MBE/WBE) participation on County contracts....

Published Nov 15, 2016

Commissioners with the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works (DPW) have recently formed an Ad Hoc Business Advisory Committee with the goal of increasing the number of disadvantaged businesses that are awarded cit...

Published Nov 03, 2016

The BuildNOLA program for the City of New Orleans has established a $1.5 million loan pool for the benefit of disadvantaged businesses that are able and willing to perform work on city contracts, yet also do not have the f...

Published Nov 03, 2016

At the end of October, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced that minority and women-owned businesses (M/WBEs) were awarded a smaller share of City procurement contracts in the 2016 fiscal year than in...

Published Nov 03, 2016