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

Last week, the Memphis City Council voted to establish a 15 percent minority and women business enterprise (MWBE) goal on architectural and engineering subcontracts.The change in procurement policy wa...

Published Oct 24, 2016

The San Francisco hearing in a federal injunction case against the Small Business Administration (SBA) that was scheduled for October 6th was canceled on October 5th with no reason given.The case, filed by the ...

Published Oct 13, 2016

The Denver Public Schools (DPS) district is in the midst of two major ventures: the first being a $572 million bond measure that is up for public vote in the November 2016 elections, and the second being shoring up its Equ...

Published Oct 13, 2016

Minority- and women-owned businesses (M/WBEs) providing goods and services to New York City agencies have reasons for optimism following Mayor Bill de Blasio's roll-out of an array of new initiatives aimed at increasing M...

Published Oct 10, 2016

Minority and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) are doing more business with the City of Kansas City, according to a new study.The Minority/Women Business Enterprise Annual Report for 2015-16 revealed that approxim...

Published Sep 29, 2016

Earlier this week, the City of Monroe launched the Monroe Access Program (MAP), which aims to help more disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) take part on city transportation projects funded by the federal go...

Published Sep 15, 2016

New York is set to unveil it's first statewide Mentor-Protégé program at the Sixth Annual MWBE Forum, which will be held on October 5th and 6th in Albany.Through the program, parti...

Published Sep 15, 2016

Small, disabled veteran, and disadvantaged businesses that work on California's state and locally-funded construction projects will be interested to know that the 2016 Election Day brings with it the opportunity...

Published Sep 02, 2016

Last night, the Austin school board signed off on a new historically underutilized business (HUB) program that aims to get minority- and women-owned businesses more involved in Austin Independent School District (AISD) pro...

Published Aug 30, 2016