[UPDATE 5/08/25: The Houston City Council voted yesterday to retain Asian- and Hispanic-owned business eligibility for the City's MWBE program, and to simultaneously expand the City&...

Published May 08, 2025

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is launching a pilot program in late spring or early summer of 2025 to explore using Small Business Enterprise (SBE) goals on ODOT's heavy highway projects. Previousl...

Published Apr 16, 2025

A bill being considered in the Maryland General Assembly would establish a new Cabinet-level agency in the state, to be known as the Department of Social and Economic Mobility, by absorbing and combining three separa...

Published Apr 16, 2025

The City of Madera is the recipient of grants through the United States Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (FTA).  It is the policy of the City to ensure that Disadvantaged Business ...

Published Apr 04, 2025

Hudson County, New Jersey, is implementing a number of measures aimed at improving contract equity for minority-owned businesses (MBEs), woman-owned businesses (WBEs), small businesses (SBEs), and veteran-owned busin...

Published Mar 28, 2025

Delaware's Office of Supplier Diversity (OSD), within the Delaware Division of Small Business (DSB), has announced the launch of a new online portal that aims to streamline the process of applying for small and ...

Published Mar 28, 2025

The City of Arlington exceeded its aspirational participation goal of 30 percent of contracts going to minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) in fiscal year 2024. The City reached an MWBE participation goal of ...

Published Mar 24, 2025

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has published a set of DBE Special Provisions ahead of contract lettings for February 26, 2025. The new provisions will be applicable to all contracts let on or afte...

Published Mar 04, 2025

The City Commission for West Palm Beach has approved an ordinance which makes certain updates to the procedures of the City's Office of Small and Minority Business Programs (OSMB). The ordinance update codifies ...

Published Feb 20, 2025

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has issued his office's Annual Report on M/WBE Procurement for fiscal year 2024. The report reviews the utilization of minority- and woman-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs...

Published Feb 20, 2025

The New York State Legislature is considering a bill that was recently introduced by State Assembly Member J. Gary Pretlow, which would create a new small business development program in the state....

Published Feb 07, 2025

The U.S. Small Business Administration recently published an update to its business participation goals, resetting the goals for small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) down to its statutory floor. The new SDB goal app...

Published Feb 05, 2025

Following the publication of a Final Rule on the matter in December of 2024, the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) new regulations relating to eligibility for its "Historically Underutilized Busine...

Published Jan 20, 2025

[NOTE: the copy below was provided to DBE GoodFaith by Clark Public Utilities, and we are publishing it verbatim.]Clark Public Utilities of Clark County, Washingto...

Published Jan 13, 2025

[NOTE: the copy below was provided to DBE GoodFaith by Clark Public Utilities, and we are publishing it verbatim.]Clark Public Utilities is updating its Small Work...

Published Jan 13, 2025