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| Date/Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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 31, 2022 | Austin Greenlights $46m Airport Construction Project | Austin’s airport is set to see an addition of three new gates and renovations to accommodate bus gates as well. The contract for construction of the project was approved by the city council ...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 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 25, 2022 | Arizona DOT Completes $20m Loop 303 Project | In an effort to improve highways in the West Valley, Arizona DOT has completed work on Loop 303 in North Peoria, widening it from two to three lanes in both directions between Happy Valley and Lake ...Read more |
| January 25, 2022 | New Mexico Bill Would Add Native American Preference in Procurement | New Mexico Democratic Senators Benny Shendo and Jemez Pueblo are sponsoring legislation that would increase the bidding preference for businesses based in New Mexico from five percent to eight perc ...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 |