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

The Vancouver City Council was recently presented with the results of a disparity study commissioned by the City of Vancouver into the experiences of minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) in doing, or attempting to ...

Published Dec 30, 2024

Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has signed an executive order reforming a wide array of procedures relating to the Office of State Procurement (OSP). The order follows a wide-ranging stakeholder engagement series conducted ...

Published Dec 30, 2024

Jacksonville Transit, of Jacksonville, North Carolina has announced its disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) participation goals for fiscal years 2025 through 2027. Jacksonville Transit is required to set such participa...

Published Dec 20, 2024

The City of Houston has recently issued a draft of its 2023 disparity study as well as a draft of the executive summary of the study. The study was commissioned to examine whether or not minority, and women‐owned, and di...

Published Dec 11, 2024

The Montgomery County Office of Procurement has issued its Record of Procurement Annual Report for fiscal year 2024. Among other things, the Report shows that the Minority, Female and Disabled-Owned Business Program (MFD) ...

Published Dec 11, 2024

The San Antonio City Council has voted 7 to 4 to amend the City's Small Business Economic Development Advocacy (SBEDA) program to remove provisions giving "preference points" to minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs)...

Published Dec 11, 2024

Governor Kathy Hochul of New York State has announced that the State is launching an initiative, to be known as "Whirlwind Winter", for the purpose of assisting minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) in getting certi...

Published Dec 03, 2024

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is in the process of conducting a disparity study into the experiences of disadvantaged businesses (comprising small businesses, person of color-owned businesses, wom...

Published Nov 22, 2024