U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and John Cornyn (R-TX) have introduced legislation to expand the number of federal infrastructure contracts awarded to small businesses owned by veterans with a service-connected disability...

Published Nov 15, 2018

E-J Electric in Long Island, New York, has been awarded the contract for electrical infrastructure work on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) 3rd Track Expansion Project from Floral Park to Hicksville, a $1.2 billion project...

Published Nov 08, 2018

The mayors of Hoboken and Jersey City have issued matching executive orders creating new disadvantaged business contracting programs in their cities. While both cities previously had programs for the benefit of woman-owned...

Published Nov 06, 2018

E-J Electric in Long Island, New York, has been awarded the contract for electrical infrastructure work on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) 3rd Track Expansion Project from Floral Park to Hicksville, a $1.2 billion project...

Published Nov 06, 2018

The Department of Defense (DOD) is set to audit its set-aside program for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) after rule changes at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and a report from the D...

Published Nov 05, 2018

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has released the fifth annual "Making the Grade" report for the city, which assigns letter grades to city agencies based on they performed in including minority- and woman-owned bus...

Published Nov 05, 2018

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is proposing certain rule changes which would make it easier for businesses to retain their HUBZone (Historically Underutilized Business Zone) certification even when the bounda...

Published Nov 01, 2018

The Kansas City Council has unanimously approved a slate of changes to the city's minority- and woman-owned business (MWBE) program, in areas related to certification, contract goals, and self-performance. The changes come...

Published Nov 01, 2018

Balfour Beatty, which has been selected as Construction Manager at Risk for the West RON Apron Rehabilitation for the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, is holding a Pre-Bid Conference, MWBE Workshop, and Site Tour on Octob...

Published Oct 26, 2018

The City Council for Virginia Beach recently heard the findings of a disparity study, commissioned in 2017, that analyzed the demographics of the contractors the city had performed procurement work with over the prior...

Published Oct 22, 2018

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has published an IFB for the first phase of the L Taraval Improvements project. The project has a construction estimate of $38.4 million, and follows th...

Published Oct 11, 2018

The St. Louis County Council hasvoted to do away with a requirement made of bidders on public contracts, following advocacy by some in the minority- and woman-owned business community. Prior to the change, comp...

Published Oct 08, 2018

Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law AB 2762, a measure which makes provision for two changes in preferences given to certain classes of business in California public contracting.The first ch...

Published Sep 28, 2018

A recent disparity study conducted for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville (Metro Nashville) found significant under-utilization in prime contracting of businesses owned by African-Americans, Latinos, A...

Published Sep 19, 2018

The Savannah Business Opportunity Program (SBO) has made a recent policy change by specifying that projects with Disadvantaged Business Enterprise DBE) participation goals must also take into account the particip...

Published Sep 10, 2018