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| Date/Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| February 12, 2022 | Contracting Innovation Bill Sent to Biden’s Desk For Signing | The Promoting Rigorous and Innovative Cost Efficiencies for Federal Procurement and Acquisitions Act of 2021 (PRICE), aims to increase small businesses’ involvement in contracting. PRICE would en ...Read more |
| February 9, 2022 | Chicago Transit Authority Awarded $912m American Rescue Plan Grant | The CTA has been given this grant to help the agency to recover from the effects of the pandemic. |
| February 7, 2022 | Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh Gets $25m in Federal Funding | Fortunately, the $25 million grant will not take funds from other regional projects that will be funded by the bill. The bridge collapsed on January 28th, 2022 as a Port Authority of Allegh ...Read more |
| February 3, 2022 | SBA Announces New Funding for Minority-Serving Institutions | SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman announced $1.5 million for Women’s Business Centers to help train entrepreneurs ahead of the release of funds through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The fund ...Read more |
| February 1, 2022 | 2021 Construction Spending Up 8 Percent | While nonresidential construction spending in December was roughly equal to November, the month prior, it was down compared to December of 2020, according to an analysis of data published by the As ...Read more |
| January 28, 2022 | USDOT Announces $1.5b Available in RAISE Grants | USDOT has posted a Notice of Funding Opportunity, or NOFO, for $1.56 billion in grants through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant prog ...Read more |
| January 26, 2022 | GSA Unveils Revamped One-Stop Shop for Contractors | The GSA says the new portal will “improve the overall experience for contractors” and makes finding and understanding “key information” about doing business with the GSA easier. “Ou ...Read more |
| January 22, 2022 | DBE program to grow from Infrastructure Law | The recently passed into law infrastructure bill specifically discusses Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) in Section 11101(e). It found that compelling reasons exist to continue the De ...Read more |
| January 14, 2022 | SDB Goal for Federal Agencies Expanded to 11% by Biden Administration | In order to increase utilization of Small-Disadvantaged Businesses (SDBs), the Biden-Harris administration recently announced a set of federal procurement reforms. The White House is reques ...Read more |
| January 10, 2022 | Senators Push New Small Bizz Bailout as Omicron Surges | Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), who is the head of the Small Business Committee, is teaming up with Roger Wicker (R-MS) to push a new bill to provide additional relief to the restaurant industry and oth ...Read more |