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| Date/Time | Title | Description |
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| May 31, 2022 | SBE Program Launched by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | Are you a small business owner in the Greater or Metro Boston areas? The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has officially launched its Small Business Enterprise (SBE) Program. ...Read more |
| March 25, 2022 | GSA Announces Four-Fold Increase to SDB Goals for Federal Contracts | On Thursday, the General Services Administration, or GSA, announced they would increase procurement goals for Small Disadvantaged Businesses from 5 percent to 21 percent. “This is an ambiti ...Read more |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| December 29, 2021 | SDVOSB Federal Contracting Goal Could Rise from 3% to 5% with New Congressional Bill | In honor of Veterans Day, a congressional bill, H.R.5953 was introduced by United States Representatives Trey ...Read more |
| December 20, 2021 | Small Biz & M/WBEs to be Mentored by NYC Department | New York City has introduced a Department of Design and Construction (DDC) mentoring program focused on increasing opportunities for Minority-owned and Women-owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs) as ...Read more |
| December 20, 2021 | Inflation Forces Nearly Half of Small Businesses to Seek Loans | The US Chamber of Commerce’s quarterly Small Business Index shows supply chain and inflation as key issues facing small businesses. While optimism is higher among small business owners than ...Read more |
| December 13, 2021 | SBE firms included in $14.7m Tampa Bay Innovation Center Project | Florida's Pinnella County is moving forward with the construction of the new Tampa Bay Innovation Center. The center will focus on helping entrepreneurs and increasing SBE (Small Business E ...Read more |
| December 3, 2021 | White House Begins Implementing Reforms to Increase SDB Procurement | The White House released a fact sheet on Thursday detailing five reforms as “the first step towards meeting the President’s goal of ensuring that 15 percent of federal contracts go to SDBs by 2 ...Read more |