The Small Business Administration (SBA) Final Rule on Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Certification has been published in the Federal Register, and, as planned...

Published Dec 07, 2022

Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) has proposed a DBE participation goal for fiscal years 2023 through 2025, in accordance with regulations requiring it to do so as a recipient of federal transit funding. The proposed DBE ...

Published Dec 06, 2022

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is seeking public comment on its new disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) participation goals for fiscal years 2024 through 2026. ADOT is required to set such DBE particip...

Published Nov 17, 2022

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2019, a bill intended to provide small businesses in California with equity and opportunity in public contracting.The bill's key components include: requiring the small busin...

Published Nov 09, 2022

The City of San José has announced it is preparing to launch a disparity study into the experiences of minority-, women-, disabled veteran-, and LGBTQ+- owned businesses and their experiences relating to City contra...

Published Nov 09, 2022

The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, through its Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, has launched its own Kentucky Minority-Owned Business Database, or MBD at www.mbdky.com, which aggregates certifications from vario...

Published Oct 27, 2022

The City of Toledo has announced the delivery of its first-ever disparity study into the experiences of minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) in City contracting. The study was conducted in an attempt to d...

Published Oct 24, 2022

The Office of Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott has released to the Board of Estimates the results of a disparity study of work overseen by the Minority and Women's Business Opportunity Office (MWBOO). The study found stati...

Published Oct 17, 2022

The deadline for stakeholder public comment on the ACDBE and DBE Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) on July 21, 2022 is coming up. The deadline has been extended to...

Published Oct 11, 2022

New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed a package of legislation affecting minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) into law. The three bills (those being A9259-A/S3390-A, A6420/S571, and A10459/S9351)...

Published Oct 10, 2022

The White House issued a memorandum on October 4th directing the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the twenty-three other large federal agencies covered by the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (including the Depa...

Published Oct 06, 2022

Responsibility for verification of ownership of all veteran-owned small businesses (VOSBs) and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) is set to be transferred from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...

Published Sep 30, 2022

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) Commissioner Kevin D. Kim have jointly announced that the City has exceeded its OneNYC goal of awarding a cumulative $25 billion ...

Published Sep 27, 2022

Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles has signed Executive Directive (ED) 35, consisting of an initiative requiring City departments to respond to findings of the recent report, entitled "The Power of Procurement: Advancing E...

Published Sep 21, 2022

The Pennsylvania House Commerce Committee is considering a bill, House Bill 2682, which would include veteran-owned businesses (VBEs) within the category of small diverse businesses (SDBs) This would mean VBEs would no lon...

Published Sep 21, 2022