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| March 19, 2022 | New Ohio Law Reduces Barriers for M/W/VBEs | Ohio has been taking a more proactive approach in getting businesses from historically marginalized communities involved in more public works contracts and procurement. On March 2, 2022 the s ...Read more |
| March 8, 2022 | M/WBE goals rarely met in Missouri, lack of disparity studies | A new report published on NPR provides a historical overview of the lack of disparity studies and procurement and bid opportunities for minority and women-owned firms in the state of Missouri. |
| February 24, 2022 | Hillsborough County to expand SBE and DM/DWBE | A wider array of minority-owned, women-owned, and small businesses in the Tampa Bay area and throughout Florida will have new opportunities for doing business with Hillsborough County. This i ...Read more |
| February 8, 2022 | NCDOT looking for DBEs and Small Businesses | North Carolina's Department of Transportation hosted another round of information ...Read more |
| January 30, 2022 | Pennsylvania spending on SDB and VBE firms increases by 30% | Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has announced that his administration had $856 million in state contract spending for fiscal year 2020-2021 with small, diverse and veteran-owned businesses. Th ...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 19, 2022 | MDOT launching contracting process for DBE truckers | The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is launching a new contracting process that will promote the use of disadvantage business enterprise (DBE) trucking companies. Information on ...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 | LGBTBEs set to be added to Travis County and the City of Austin's HUB Program | LGBT-owned business enterprises (LGBTBEs) are set to be added to the Travis County Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program. The City of Austin’s LGBTQ+ Quality of Life Commission ...Read more |
| January 7, 2022 | SBE Pool Expanded & DVBE/SBE Program Changes in California | The Leveraging State Procurement for an Inclusive Economic Recovery Act of 2021, more commonly known as California Assembly Bill 1574 has been passed into law and will now require state agencies to ...Read more |