Late in Februrary, the administration of Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito of Massachusetts launched a series of initiatives intended to promote participation of minority- and woman-owned ...

Published Mar 04, 2020

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has recently announced several successes in increasing rate the of utilization of small diverse businesses in public procurement. The announcement is part of the release of the annual repor...

Published Feb 21, 2020

Mayor Joe Hogsett of Indianapolis and the Indy Chamber have launched the Growing with Accelerated Payment (GAP) Program for minority- and woman-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) in the city. The move c...

Published Feb 20, 2020

The Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (SBSD) is commissioning a disparity which will examine procurement opportunities for minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) in the state. The study was...

Published Feb 18, 2020

Mecklenburg County will hold two public meetings in Febraury regarding the upcoming minority and women owned businesses enterprise (MWBE) disparity study that it has commissioned.The public meetings will offer ...

Published Jan 30, 2020

The City of Indianapolis has released the results of a study of its Minority-, Women-, Veteran-, and Disabled-owned Business Enterprise (M/W/V/DOBE) Program, the first such review since 1995. The disparity study indic...

Published Jan 27, 2020

Westchester County's Office of Economic Development recently announced several steps they are taking to enhance their minority- and woman-owned business enterprise (MWBE) program. Changes will be made to the participation ...

Published Jan 27, 2020

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently delivered his State of the State speech for 2020. The speech was accompanied by a lengthy policy book outlining many initiatives that were not touched on in the speech but which form part ...

Published Jan 23, 2020

The Governor's Office of Small, Minority and Women Business for Affairs for the State of Maryland has recently announced a 2020 schedule for its Technical Training Classroom series. There are set to be 22 session...

Published Jan 07, 2020

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 existence...

Published Jan 07, 2020

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) Roster....

Published Jan 07, 2020

New Hanover County has recently begun working on an update to their minority- and woman-owned business enterprise (MWBE) program. The goal of the update is to garner a higher rate of MWBE participation on County procuremen...

Published Dec 26, 2019

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is hosting three public informational meetings on the results of its recently-conducted disparity study. The study examined disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) ...

Published Dec 02, 2019

New Jersey State Senator Vin Gopal has introduced legislation that would establish a price preference program on state contracts for service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDVOBs).The price preference would...

Published Nov 22, 2019

New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer issued his yearly "Making the Grade: New York City Agency Report Card on M/WBEs" report, and awarded the City a grade of "C" for its utilization of minority- and woman-owned busi...

Published Nov 20, 2019