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

In 2014, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo set a minority- and women-owned business enterprise (MWBE) utilization goal of 30 percent for state contracting. The state has recently come closer than ever before in reachi...

Published Oct 03, 2019

The City of Fort Wayne is expanding its Emerging Business Enterprises (EBE) program. Where before the program applied to city projects, there is now a new recommendation that the program apply to the city's portion of priv...

Published Sep 27, 2019

The United States Department of Transportation (US DOT) recently issued a memorandum on the definition of Native American Owned DBEs (or Disadvantaged Business Enterprises). The memorandum comes after a Los Angeles Times i...

Published Sep 20, 2019

Mayor Jane Castor of Tampa has signed an executive order designating LGBT-owned business enterprises (LGBTBEs) as eligible for certification procedures from the city. The certification wlll be performed through the auspice...

Published Aug 22, 2019

The Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) and San Francisco Bay Ferry jointly held a webinar recently, on August 20th, 2019, on a vessel construction project expected to begin late 2019 or early 2020. The pr...

Published Aug 21, 2019

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 Aug 09, 2019

The City of Los Angeles has added a certification for LGBTQ business owners to the Business Assistance Virtual Network (BAVN) program that the city operates. The BAVN operates as a free portal for finding public city contr...

Published Aug 07, 2019

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has announced its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation goals. The goals are split according to whether the MassDOT contracts in question are assiste...

Published Jul 31, 2019

The City of Columbus has published a disparity study examining whether minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) were underutilized on city contracts between 2012 to 2015. This is the first such study con...

Published Jul 26, 2019