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

Last week, the Miami-Dade School Board reinstated the Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) program, which is designed to help these businesses participate on Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) ...

Published Sep 14, 2015

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration is making changes to the way the city implements its disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) program.Last week, the mayor announced that the city is taking ste...

Published Sep 14, 2015

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is preparing to conduct an Availability and Disparity Study through a consulting firm to examine the whether there is evidence of discrimination in the state's h...

Published Aug 31, 2015

In September, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (HSR) and its partners will host Small Business (SBE) and Disadvantage Business Enterprise (DBE) certification workshops at no cost to small businesses at multipl...

Published Aug 31, 2015

The Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority & Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County and McCarran International Airport & Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada are hosting separate publi...

Published Aug 31, 2015

For the first time since the State of Ohio established its Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) program, the state has achieved its annual goal of spending 15 percent of its contracting dollars with minority-owned businesses...

Published Aug 26, 2015

The City of Philadelphia increased the amount of city contracting dollars going to minority and women-owned businesses (MBEs and WBEs) in 2014, according to a recently released study. The annual report found a on...

Published Aug 25, 2015

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee announced the creation of a new subcabinet that will work to increase minority-, women- and veteran-owned business participation on state contacts.At present, only one perce...

Published Aug 10, 2015

The District of Columbia's Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced its proposed three-year disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) goal in late July.For fiscal years 2016 through 2018, DDOT say...

Published Jul 30, 2015