The City of Madera is the recipient of grants through the United States Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (FTA). It is the policy of the City to ensure that disadvantaged business enterprises (DBE...

Published Jul 07, 2016

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 Jul 01, 2016

The City of Madera is the recipient of grants through the United States Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (FTA). It is the policy of the City to ensure that disadvantaged business enterprises (DBE...

Published Jun 29, 2016

Minority- and women-owned business enterprises (M/WBE) are doing more business with Cook County, according to a recently published study.In 2015, Cook County awarded 29 percent of its contract awards - four per...

Published Jun 23, 2016

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is seeking public input regarding its proposal to spend 10.9 percent of all federally-funded highway expenditures with disadvantaged business enterprises...

Published Jun 07, 2016

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is in the process of setting an overall disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) goal for federally-funded highway projects in 2017, and is inviting the public to attend&...

Published May 24, 2016

Next month, Metra will roll out a small business enterprise program in an effort to improve access to Authority contracting opportunities for these firms.

Companies that are already certified as a disadva...

Published May 05, 2016

A new study commissioned by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has found that businesses owned by Asian, Hispanic, Black, and Native Americans are being left out of the Department's contracting process....

Published May 05, 2016

The Missouri Office of Administration is taking steps to promote the inclusion of minority and women-owned businesses (M/WBEs) in state contracting.Earlier in April, the office proposed rules that will sim...

Published Apr 21, 2016

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is proposing an overall 11.6 percent disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) contracting goal on contracts funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) o...

Published Apr 21, 2016

The Business Outreach Committee (BOC), a consortium of Bay Area transit and transportation agencies, is inviting the public to participate in a roundtable discussion regarding the efforts ...

Published Mar 31, 2016

In 2015, the federal government exceeded it's annual women business contracting goal of 5 percent for the first time since it's establishment of the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) program.Du...

Published Mar 29, 2016

A study released by the Indiana Department of Administration this month found that minority- and women-owned businesses (MBE/WBEs) are not getting their fair share of the state's public works dollars....

Published Mar 29, 2016

At the of February, the Austin School Board green-lighted a program aimed at making more of the district's contract awards available to historically underutilized businesses (HUBs), which are usually owned by mi...

Published Mar 07, 2016

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh signed into effect an Executive Order that will, in part, lay the groundwork for a study to examine the participation level of minority- and women-owned businesses (MBEs/WBEs) in cit...

Published Mar 07, 2016