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| Date/Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| March 28, 2022 | USDOT Announces FY23 Budget of $142b, New Strategic Plan | The total figure of $142 billion includes an additional $37 billion in advanced appropriations from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. “The investments in the President’s Budget make trav ...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 |
| 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 23, 2022 | California to Ramp Up Compliance Enforcement at Public Projects | Back in January, the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced that the agency’s Labor Enforcement Task Force would increase monitoring of employers to make sure they are providing worke ...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 17, 2022 | Ground Broken at $383.8m Cruise Terminal in Miami | MSC Cruises and Fincantieri have laid the “first stone” at the Miami terminal. MSC Cruises executive chairman Pierfrancesco Vago boasts it will be the “largest and most technologically advanc ...Read more |
| March 15, 2022 | Non-Residential Construction Material Prices Skyrocketed in 2021 | Non-residential construction material prices rose 20 percent in one year according to data collected even before the war in Ukraine heated up. Some commodity price figures from February show ...Read more |
| March 14, 2022 | Illinois Disperses Another $250m to Support Local Transportation | The announcement brings the total amount of funds disbursed through the Rebuild Illinois program to $1,250,0000. The bipartisan initiative will eventually invest $1.5 billion into transportation in ...Read more |
| March 9, 2022 | Fed Grants Milwaukee-Chicago Rail $31.8m to Double Passenger Transport | The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) announced on Wednesday a federal grant worth $31.8 million for “station and rail segment ...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. |