The Gadsen City Council has approved a new program that will track the city's efforts to include minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) in its procurement process.Through the MWBE program, the city ...

Published May 28, 2015

In 2014, the Port Authority awarded $436 million in contracts, equal to 18.3 percent of the Authority's spending, to companies categorized as minority, women, or small business enterprises (MWSBEs). This participatio...

Published May 28, 2015

According to a report recently released by the St. Louis Development Corporation, the city's minority- and women-owned businesses (M/WBEs) were largely left out of the public contracting process betwee...

Published May 19, 2015

A new measure passed by the New Orleans City Council aims to ensure that the city's departments are accurately reporting participation levels of disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) on contracts that receive pub...

Published Apr 29, 2015

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to expand the federal government's disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) program to include small businesses owned by disabled veterans.I...

Published Apr 27, 2015

A contractor in Oregon was stripped of its status as a certified women and minority-owned business (M/WBE) and was required to pay a $15,000 fine by the Oregon Department of Justice last week after it was discovered that t...

Published Mar 31, 2015

Last week Coloardo lawmakers introduced a bill that would require the state to study whether historically underutilized businesses (HUBs), which are owned by minorities and women, are receiving their fair share of the stat...

Published Mar 31, 2015

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is inviting the public to attend meetings and provide input on the department's proposed disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) goals on projects funded by...

Published Mar 31, 2015

Last week, the City of Philadelphia released findings that minority, women and disabled-owned business enterprise (M/W/DSBE) participation on city contracts increased in 2014 compared to the previous year....

Published Mar 25, 2015

Last week Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh signed an Executive Order creating a program aimed at increasing veteran-owned small business (VOSB) participation on city contracts.Under the Veteran-Owned Small Bus...

Published Mar 23, 2015

The City of Durham is examining ways to adjust its minority- and women-owned business (MBE/WBE) program in order to ensure that these companies are competing on equal footing with other firms doing business with the c...

Published Mar 23, 2015

On February 13th, the Department of General Services published 5 webinars on "How to Do Business with California State Government, a 5-Step Process" and additional marketing tips. To take part in the webinars, click the li...

Published Feb 27, 2015

The public will have an opportunity to voice their opinion on the California Department of General Services' (DGS) proposed changes to the state's Small Business (SB) certification program on March 5th.Accord...

Published Feb 27, 2015

A recently released California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) report has found that substantial disparity exists between the expected and actual participation of some disadvantaged groups on contrac...

Published Jan 29, 2015

A new agreement between the County of Erie and City of Buffalo Joint Certification Committee (JCC) and Empire State Development will allow "fast track" minority- and women-owned business (MBE/WBE) certification with the ...

Published Jan 26, 2015