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| March 24, 2022 | NYC Provides Less Than 4% of Contracts to M/WBEs | On a state level, New York in 2021 announced that it had reached its 30% goal for state contracts being with minority- and women-owned business enterprises. Yet, the numbers are much lower ...Read more |
| 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 |