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

The New Jersey Treasury has recently announced the launch of a new online portal, the Uniform Certification Service (UCS), serving the needs of the state's small, minority, women, and veteran owned business enterprise (SMW...

Published Nov 19, 2019

The Common Council for the City of South Bend has unanimously approved a plan proposed by Mayor Peter Buttigieg's administration under which the City will set an annual goal of purchasing at least 15 percent of its goods a...

Published Nov 18, 2019

The results of the 2019 East Baton Rouge City-Parish disparity study were recently released at a meeting of the City-Parish's Metro Council. The upshot of the study is a finding of underutilization for minority-, woma...

Published Nov 18, 2019

Boston's Mayor Martin J. Walsh has issued an executive order in support of diversifying city procurement practices. The executive order follows an executive order from 2016 which also was targeted at ensuring fair and equi...

Published Nov 04, 2019

The Indiana Department of Administration (IDOA) has announced dates for public meetings related to the upcoming 2020 disparity study that IDOA has commissioned. The disparity study is intended to provide insight into poten...

Published Oct 31, 2019

The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) for Orange County, Florida, has recently adopted measures which are designed to foster a business-friendly climate for LGBT-owned business enterprises (often known as LGBTBEs) in the...

Published Oct 16, 2019