The Mechanical Contractors Association (MCA) of Memphis recently filed suit against Shelby County, seeking to halt the implementation of the county's Minority- and Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) program....

Published Jan 30, 2019

The Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018 became federal law in December of 2018, however, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has issued an opinion stating that it is not yet effective until SBA rulemaking ...

Published Jan 24, 2019

The Service-Disabled Veterans Small Business Continuation Act (H.R. 5044) has recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives, though it has not yet passed the Senate. The bill was introducted by Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohi...

Published Jan 18, 2019

The Disadvanted Business Enterprise (DBE) Program review panel for the City of Frederick recently put out a report on DBE participation in city procurement. The data studied was from fiscal year 2017, and revealed tha...

Published Jan 15, 2019

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently signed an executive directive directing the Department of Management, Budget and Technology in that state to create a procurement preference for "geographically-disadvantaged bus...

Published Jan 10, 2019

Effective January 1st, the maximum allowable gross annual revenue (GAR) for a business to be designated a very small business enterprise (VSBE) by the Port of Los Angeles will be increased to $5 million. This follows the p...

Published Jan 07, 2019

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) recently announced that the disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) annual participation goal for federally funded transportation projects in California would be raise...

Published Jan 07, 2019

Clark Public Utilities is updating its Small Works Roster for public works projects under Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000) and Clark Public Utilities’ Professional Engineering & Architects Roster....

Published Jan 02, 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 Jan 02, 2019

The Wisconsin State Assembly is considering a bill that, among other changes, would require the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) to concentrate federal dollars received for transportation projects into ...

Published Dec 12, 2018

A public contracting disparity study performed for the City of Asheville has found substantial disparities in the city's contracting awards between 2012 and 2017. Out of $118 million in contract dollars awarded during that...

Published Dec 07, 2018

Legislation has recently been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, by House Committee on Small Business Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) and House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN), that ...

Published Dec 04, 2018

Following a disparity study conducted on behalf of the Metro Government of Nashville and Davidson County (Metro), the results of which were presented to Metro in 2018, Nashville Mayor David Briley has announced the filing ...

Published Nov 30, 2018

The Department of General Services (DGS) for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has released their recently completed 2018 Disparity Study, which was conducted in order to evaluate the DGS's implementation of their Smal...

Published Nov 16, 2018

The City of Dayton most recently conducted disparity studies on the utilization of minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) in 2008 and 1991, and it is set to conduct another such examination of MWBE purchases by ...

Published Nov 15, 2018