The Forth Worth City Council has voted to suspend its minority- and woman-owned business enterprise (MWBE) contracting program, and to institute in its place a new Small Business Development Program. The suspension o...

Published Oct 07, 2025

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) is currently being considered in the House and Senate. An amendment to the NDAA, entitled "Department of Defense Contracting Goals for Sm...

Published Oct 07, 2025

Mayor Cara Spencer of St. Louis has issued an executive order (Executive Order 91) which resumes the program the City had been running for minority/women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs).Th...

Published Oct 07, 2025

On September 30th, 2025, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) to its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Airport Concessions DBE (ACDBE) programs. The IFR, w...

Published Oct 02, 2025

The Service-Disabled Veteran Opportunities in Small Business Act, an act intended to support small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans (or SDVOSBs), has been reintroduced in the Senate by Senators John Kenn...

Published Aug 06, 2025

Orange County's Board of County Commissioners (BCC) has created a new Small Business Enterprise (SBE) certification program, following their vote on on July 1, 2025, to suspend their Minority/Women Business Ente...

Published Jul 24, 2025

The Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) has issued its recommended Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation goal for federally assisted contracts during fiscal years 2026 through 2028. Iowa DOT ...

Published Jul 16, 2025

[NOTE: DBE GoodFaith received the text below from Clark Public Utilities. We are publishing it as-is on their behalf.]CLARK PUBLIC UTILITIES NOTICE TO VENDORS...

Published Jul 01, 2025

[The text of the following notice was provided to us by ABC Bus, Inc. We are publishing it as-is. The 45-day period mentioned in the notice started on June 4, 2025.]PUBLIC NOTICE&l...

Published Jun 10, 2025

The Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) is currently in the process of setting its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation goal for fiscal years 2026 through 2028. All recipients of transportat...

Published May 27, 2025

The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has issued a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation goal for fiscal years 2026 through 2028. All recipients of transportation funding from the Federa...

Published May 27, 2025

[UPDATE 5/08/25: The Houston City Council voted yesterday to retain Asian- and Hispanic-owned business eligibility for the City's MWBE program, and to simultaneously expand the City&...

Published May 08, 2025

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is launching a pilot program in late spring or early summer of 2025 to explore using Small Business Enterprise (SBE) goals on ODOT's heavy highway projects. Previousl...

Published Apr 16, 2025

A bill being considered in the Maryland General Assembly would establish a new Cabinet-level agency in the state, to be known as the Department of Social and Economic Mobility, by absorbing and combining three separa...

Published Apr 16, 2025

The City of Madera is the recipient of grants through the United States Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (FTA).  It is the policy of the City to ensure that Disadvantaged Business ...

Published Apr 04, 2025