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

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