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

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