In early December, the California Department of General Services and the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) rolled out the Cal eProcure vendor portal, which offers a modern, more streamlined way...

Published Dec 31, 2015

President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2016 on November 25, 2015, which among other changes, increases the maximum guarantee percentage in the Small Business Administration's (...

Published Dec 31, 2015

Companies attempting to publish notices inviting minority and women businesses to participate on publicly-funded contracts through the Minority Business Development Agency's (MBDA) Web site are finding that they...

Published Nov 16, 2015

According to a disparity study released on October 30th, minority- and women-owned businesses (MBE/WBE) are being awarded an increasing number of contracts by the City of San Antonio.The study, which exami...

Published Nov 05, 2015

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced this month that he will expand the state's supplier diversity program to include veteran, disabled, and LGBT-owned businesses."We thank Governor Baker and his ad...

Published Nov 05, 2015

A recently released report commissioned by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority is recommending that the Authority continue its disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) program after it found "extensive evid...

Published Nov 05, 2015

Beginning on November 4th, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will be hosting five meetings around the state where the public can learn about the department's recently completed study on disadvantaged ...

Published Oct 30, 2015

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has signed an executive order that implements a number of recommendations made by the state's Disparity Study Oversight Review Committee that are intended to provide minority- and women-ow...

Published Oct 28, 2015

New York City is doing a poor job at integrating minority and women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs) into the public contracting sphere, according to a report card released last week by the Comptroller's office....

Published Oct 19, 2015

Last week, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced the roll out of BuildNOLA, a program designed to prepare local small and disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) for competing on city contracts.The free ...

Published Oct 05, 2015

The City of Cincinnati has released the findings of a minority- (MBE) and women-business enterprise (WBE) disparity study, which found that the city could do more to include these businesses in the public contracting proce...

Published Oct 05, 2015

Each year, California's various departments and agencies are required to make an effort to meet statewide small business (SB) and disabled veteran business enterprise (DVBE) contracting goals. According to ...

Published Sep 30, 2015

At the end of August, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) notified the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) that it approved the department's disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) goal for ...

Published Sep 30, 2015

Last week, the Illinois Tollway announced that it has established a committee that will develop initiatives intended to expand the Tollway's efforts to include minority, women, and veteran-owned businesses, in additi...

Published Sep 28, 2015

Women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) can now be awarded sole-source contracts by federal agencies, following the recent passage of a new rule by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)."Women-owned b...

Published Sep 21, 2015