On September 14, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) published its 2012 Availability and Disparity Study. The study, conducted by BBC Research & Consultants between October 2011 and August 2012, examines "w...

Published Oct 04, 2012

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) has made it easier to find disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) on its website. In late July, NDOT's Office of Civil Rights and Contract Compliance updated its o...

Published Sep 14, 2012

The California Department of Transportation is soliciting public comment on the Overall Annual Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Goal and Methodology for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2013 through 2015 as submitted to the F...

Published Sep 07, 2012

In early August, the California High-Speed Rail Authority's Board of Directors voted to set a 10 percent disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) goal for federal rail contracts and construction projects. The Board...

Published Sep 04, 2012

California may receive up to $43 million in federal money to put toward its transportation projects, according to California Department of Transportation Director Malcolm Dougherty. On August 24, U.S. Transportati...

Published Sep 04, 2012

Essex County is inviting small, disadvantaged, minority, and women-owned businesses to register for its free Bonding Readiness Program. The program, which will run from September 13, 2012 until November 1, 2012,...

Published Aug 27, 2012

On August 22, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn introduced a bill that is intended to expand contracting opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses (M/WBEs). Under Local Law 129, which was ...

Published Aug 27, 2012

The City of Chicago may soon be implementing a mentor-protege program that would help both minority and women-owned business enterprises (M/WBE) and general contractors win city contracts. "This innovative program...

Published Aug 22, 2012

In mid-July, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced that she has formed a new advisory council that will recommend improvements to the city's 30-year-old minority- and women-owned (M/WBE) business program. ...

Published Aug 06, 2012

In mid-July, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law SB 1029, which authorizes construction of the first segment of a planned statewide high-speed rail system. "This legislation will help put thousands of people in Calif...

Published Aug 06, 2012

The Georgia State Conference NAACP is pressing the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) for "willful" discrimination against African-American owned companies. E...

Published Aug 06, 2012

On July 10, Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance Jay Gonzalez launched a new training and development program, named Capacity for Contracts, which aims to improve the competitiveness of small, minority, and w...

Published Jul 16, 2012

In a June 22 letter to transportation industry stakeholders, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) announced it will no longer implement Underutilized Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (UDBE) goals on its con...

Published Jun 26, 2012

In January 2012 the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee submitted a petition to the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) for inclusion as a minority group that is socially or economically disadvantaged pursuant...

Published Jun 07, 2012

On May 22, the California's top independent government oversight body voted unanimously to recommend legislative approval of Gov. Jerry Brown's reorganization plan, which will make government more effective by cutting the num...

Published Jun 05, 2012