A bill has been introduced into the California State Assembly which, if passed, would set a quota (rather than a goal) of awarding 25 percent of all state contracts to small businesses. The bill, AB 915, follows a 2006 exe...

Published Feb 26, 2021

City of MaderaDisadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program Policy StatementIt is the policy of the City of Madera to ensure that advantaged business enterprises (DBEs)...

Published Feb 22, 2021

The New Orleans City Council has approved a reorganization of the City's current efforts, through its Office of Supplier Diversity, to include disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) in City procurement. The efforts will...

Published Feb 12, 2021

Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia has announced support for a version of a procurement bill currently pending in the state legislature which would support minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs). The bill as introduc...

Published Feb 04, 2021

The City of Birmingham launched an initiative known as Valuing Inclusion to Accelerate and Lift (or VITAL) in 2019, with the goal of collating and making public the City's diversity spending data and then making changes ba...

Published Feb 04, 2021

The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) is set to begin formally including LGBT-owned business enterprises (LGBTBEs) in City procurement through a partnership with the National LGBT Chamber of Commerc...

Published Jan 27, 2021

[UPDATE 01/22/21: Nassau County has hired a consultant on a two-year contract (with an option for renewing for one further year) to do a formal disparity study on Nassau County public procurement (the same...

Published Jan 22, 2021

Clark Public Utilities, of Clark County, Washington, has established vendor lists for supplying materials, equipment and supplies under RCW 54.04.082 and 39.04.190 which allows the Utility to publish notice of the existenc...

Published Jan 06, 2021

Clark Public Utilities is updating its Small Works Roster for public works projects under Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000) and Clark Public Utilities’ Professional Engineering & Architects (PEA) Ro...

Published Jan 06, 2021

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) has launched several new programs with the intent of supporting small local businesses in city contracting. The programs are designed to provide direct assistance to small lo...

Published Jan 04, 2021

The City of San Diego's current small local business enterprise (SLBE) program was established in 2010 and has been operating since then, but a new audit of the program found that, among other things, the SLBE program was ...

Published Jan 04, 2021

The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), through their Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE), announced earlier that they were raising the net worth cap for participation in the state's Minority Business E...

Published Jan 04, 2021

The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced that it will raise the gross receipts cap on eligibility for businesses to participate in its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program. The effectiv...

Published Dec 21, 2020

The Chicago City Council has its set-aside program for minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) through September of 2021. The timeframe for this extension was set in order to ensure that the disparity study currently ...

Published Dec 07, 2020

The utilization rate for minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) in New York State procurement reached 29.51 percent during the 2019-2020 fiscal year, according to a recent announcement from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. ...

Published Dec 03, 2020