By a vote of 4 to 1, Travis County's Commissioners Court has decided to award the University of Texas (UT) a $132,000 contract for assessing certain aspects of the County's current Historically Underutilized Business ...

Published Jul 25, 2019

Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York recently signed into law S.6575/A.8414, legislation which reauthorizes the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE) program. The program is a state-level certification ope...

Published Jul 18, 2019

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has signed an executive order with a number of consequences for for small-, women-, and minority-owned businesses (SWaMs), as well as service disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDV...

Published Jul 11, 2019

The United States Small Business Administration (U.S. SBA) recently released its Small Business Federal Procurement Scorecard for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY 2018). The letter grade for the federal government as a whole was an "A...

Published Jul 09, 2019

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) in North Carolina is currently in the process of updating their Contractor/Supplier Databases, and is requesting that businesses interested in doing procurement work for CMS fill ou...

Published Jul 08, 2019

The City of Madera, California has recently announced a disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) participation goal of 10 percent on projects funded through the United States Department of Transportation Federal Transit Adm...

Published Jul 08, 2019

Nassau County is set to begin conducting a disparity study later in 2019, covering minority-, woman-, and disabled-veteran-owned businesses. The prior disparity study was conducted in 2003, and it is suspected that since t...

Published Jun 25, 2019

The New York State Legislature has recently successfully passed a bill which would raise the cap on New York City's discretionary award limit for minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) to $500,000, from $150,000. Add...

Published Jun 24, 2019

A bill was recently introduced in the House of the North Carolina state legislature which would give disabled-veteran-owned businesses (DVBEs) a leg up in winning state contracts. The bill, HB 954, is currently moving thro...

Published Jun 18, 2019

The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (PCJPB), which owns and operates the Caltrain service, has recently announced the beginning of a public comment period on its proposed DBE participation goal for the fiscal years 2...

Published Jun 12, 2019

The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) has updated their online certification portal, SBS Connect, in order to provide minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) with a more accessible pathway...

Published Jun 07, 2019

Riverside Municipal Airport (RAL) has published its participation goals for contracting with DBEs in the fiscal years 2019 to 2021. The DBE program for RAL is overseen by the City of Riverside in accordance with U.S. Depar...

Published Jun 04, 2019

The Mecklenburg County Manager recently presented to the Board of County Commissioners a proposed $1.9 billion budget for the county for fiscal year 2020. That amount includes an allotment of $8.1 million in funding for th...

Published May 28, 2019

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is seeking public input on their proposed Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation goals for fiscal year 2020. Like all departments with DBE programs, the KYTC is req...

Published May 28, 2019

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently published a proposed rule implementing a certification regime for certain business designations which have operated previously under a self-certification regime. ...

Published May 23, 2019