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

The $642 billion defense spending bill recently passed by the House of Representatives includes eight measures that intend to increase small business participation in government contracting. The bills include: ...

Published Jun 05, 2012

In mid-April, the City of Houston released the results of its minority and women-owned enterprise (M/WBEs) disparity study, which analyzed data on M/WBE participation on city-funded construction contracts between 2005 to 2010...

Published May 22, 2012

In late March, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced an initiative that will send a team of representatives from various government entities to each region of the state to help small business owners start and grow their business...

Published May 16, 2012

Unveiled in February, New York City's Compete to Win initiative consists of five new programs that will help M/WBEs compete in the city's procurement market by eliminating market barriers and improving competition. ...

Published May 16, 2012