The State of Alabama is currently in the process of conducting its 2025 Procurement Study into conditions for minority- and woman-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) in the State contracting marketplace. The study will atte...

Published Apr 01, 2024

The City of Tacoma has announced that it is beginning the process of conducting a disparity study. The study will examine the experiences of small, disadvantaged, minority-, and women-owned businesses in doing (or attempti...

Published Mar 26, 2024

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has announced that it exceeded its participation goal for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) on federally-funded contracts in fiscal year 2023. This marks the first...

Published Mar 18, 2024

The Montgomery County Office of Procurement has announced that its Minority, Female and Disabled-Owned Business Program (MFD) and its Local Small Business Reserve Program (LSBRP) both attained record levels of funding for ...

Published Mar 18, 2024

The State of Washington is introducing a new business certification, the Public Works Small Business Enterprise (or PWSBE) certification. The State's Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises (OMWBE) will be resp...

Published Mar 11, 2024

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has issued the Annual Report on M/WBE Procurement for the City's Office of Comptroller. The annual report takes a look at conditions for Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprises ...

Published Feb 27, 2024

The City of Austin has published proposed utilization goals for Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (ACDBEs) by Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA). The City is required to publish such goals as...

Published Feb 26, 2024

United States Representatives Mike Waltz and Jimmy Panetta have introduced a bill entitled the "Contract Our Veterans Act" in the House of Representatives. The bill aims to increase the rate at which the U.S. Department of...

Published Feb 20, 2024

Nassau Community College, a public community college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, is opening its Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) Center for Excellence in Entrepreneurship this spring. ...

Published Feb 12, 2024

Hudson County, New Jersey, has recently announced that the County will be conducting its first ever disparity study. The study will examine how the County and its agencies have done business with small and diverse business...

Published Feb 05, 2024

St. Louis County has released a disparity study conducted on the experiences of minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) in competing for contract work with the County. The study examined contracts within the period of...

Published Feb 01, 2024

The State of New Jersey has released a completed disparity study that was done on the experiences of minority- and woman-owned business enterprises (MWBE) in the realm of state contracting. The study had been commissioned ...

Published Feb 01, 2024

The provisions of the Investing in VETS Act (VETS being short for Veteran Entrepreneurial Talents), sponsored by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, have been signed into law. Rather than being passed separately, the provi...

Published Jan 30, 2024

The City of Austin's Small and Minority Business Resources Department (SMBR) has issued a memo relating to the personal net worth (PNW) cap on businesses eligible for its minority- and woman-owned business enterprise (M/WB...

Published Jan 30, 2024

A bill (S-7836/A-8468) has been introduced in the New York Assembly which would create a "curing period" for applications for certification from the State as a minority- or woman-owned business enterprise (MWBE). The bill ...

Published Jan 24, 2024