The draft of the 2018 City of New Orleans Disparity Study is available for public review and comment.The study aims to analyze the extent to which a level playing field in competition for New Orleans city contr...

Published Mar 12, 2018

City of St. Louis Alderman Jeffrey Boyd is advocating for BB 270, a measure that would add teeth to the City's requirement that companies awarded taxpayer-funded contracts consider minority- and woman-o...

Published Mar 12, 2018

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is hosting public informational meetings regarding proposed changes to the state's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program. A Seattle meeti...

Published Mar 12, 2018

The City of Savannah ended its Minority- and Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) program, which certified businesses bidding on city contracts in Savannah as MWBEs in order to provide those businesses with certain benef...

Published Mar 08, 2018

Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City recently announced that the three banks authorized to hold City deposits will give a combined $40 million to the Contract Financing Loan Fund (CFLF) and the Emerging Developer Loan Fun...

Published Feb 26, 2018

The General Governance Committee for the City Council of Winston-Salem has been discussing expanding the types of city contracts that must have participation goals for minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs) attached ...

Published Feb 26, 2018

The Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority (MSCAA) has debuted a new online certification process through which businesses can both apply for and renew their certification as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE). ...

Published Feb 23, 2018

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has recently unveiled a new portal, DBE Online, where companies looking to become certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) or as an Airport Concession DBE in the ...

Published Feb 14, 2018

The Office of Contract Compliance for the City of Buffalo is in the process of implementing a new compliance tracking software system to more effectively tracking whether prime contractors on city projects are meeting...

Published Feb 14, 2018

The City of Cincinnati's minority- and women-owned business enterprise (MWBE) program has come into conflict with a "responsible bidder" and local-hiring ordinance which was passed in 2013. A federal appeals co...

Published Feb 14, 2018

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced a package of proposed legislative changes aimed at expanding the state's minority- and woman-owned business enterprise (MWBE) program. These proposed changes fo...

Published Feb 06, 2018

In November 2017, Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome ordered the East Baton Rouge Parish (of which Baton Rouge is the parish seat) to conduct a disparity study which aims to determine whether or not and to wh...

Published Feb 05, 2018

An act to repeal the effects of Initiative 200, which Washington voters passed in 1998, and which banned the use of affirmative action, including the ability of state agencies to give preferential treatment to minority-own...

Published Feb 05, 2018

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has introduced a bill to expand minority and women-owned business (MWBE) access to the Small Business Administration's microloan program.If approved, the Microloan...

Published Feb 02, 2018

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer recently announced a year-long series of workshops to boost the contracting capacity of the city's minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs).The workshops, going unde...

Published Feb 01, 2018