In 2015, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order on "Diversity, Inclusion and Small Business Opportunities in Commonwealth Procurement and in Pennsylvania's Economy". The order created the Bureau of Divers...

Published Jun 23, 2020

The current surface transportation funding authorization passed by the U.S. Congress is due to expire on September 30th, 2020, and with it, the federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program. In order to renew fun...

Published Jun 22, 2020

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) awarded $73.1 million in contracts, representing 32 percent of contracting dollars during the relevant period, to New York State and New York City certified minority-own...

Published Jun 10, 2020

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has in the past provided online participation opportunities in its various meetings for the benefit of disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) only to those DBEs located ou...

Published Jun 10, 2020

For some time now, the position of Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDBs) in federal contracting has been somewhat tenuous. While all federal agencies have been subject to goals of meeting a 5% participation rate of SDBs in...

Published Jun 08, 2020

(UPDATE 5/26/20 - The SBA has published the rules as expected, making them applicable to "those businesses wishing to compete for set-aside or sole source contracts under the Program". There is an effectiv...

Published May 26, 2020

Mayor Andrew Ginther of Columbus, following the 2019 release of a disparity study looking into utilization of the small, minority, and women-owned business community in city contracting, has signed an executive order ...

Published May 15, 2020

The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) is currently in the process of setting its triennial disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) participation goals for fiscal years 2021 through 2023 for Federal Highway Administra...

Published May 13, 2020

Caltrans District 5, along with state and local partners, will be hosting a series of webinars for small business owners starting on Thursday, May 7th, 2020. The webinar series offers a way for small businesses to sti...

Published Apr 24, 2020

The Denver City Council approved a five-year-renewal of the equity program for small, local minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs). The equity program is run through the Denver Economic Development & Op...

Published Apr 20, 2020

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has announced that the city will host twice-weekly webinars for minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) through Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinars will cover a var...

Published Apr 17, 2020

Charleston International Airport spent $7,784,882 - out of a total $77,375,260 for all procurement - on procurement of goods and services from minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) in 2019, according to a ...

Published Apr 17, 2020

The Port of Seattle, after adopting a new Diversity in Contracting policy directive in 2018, has seen an increase in the utilization of minority- and woman-owned business enterprise (MWBE) contracting in 2019. Under the ne...

Published Apr 01, 2020

UPDATE [3/24/20]: After receiving input from local unions and the Greater Capital Region Building and Construction Trades Council, the resolution has been temporarily shelved. Discussion on the resolution will resume short...

Published Mar 27, 2020

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has launched a new portal for businesses eligible to become certified disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs). The new portal allows for an all-online applicat...

Published Mar 20, 2020