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| April 11, 2022 | Boston Mayor Looks to Expand City Contracts for M/WBEs | Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has filed a home rule petition to expand access to City contracts for minority-owned business enterprises (MBEs) and women-owned business enterprises (WBEs). If pa ...Read more |
| April 8, 2022 | Tennessee Unveils $3.6b 3-Year Transportation Plan | The plan features $3.6 billion in infrastructure investments across 58 projects, including 22 highway and bridge projects in “economically distressed and at-risk counties.” “Investing i ...Read more |
| April 7, 2022 | SBA Ramps Up Women-Centered Services | The SBA has announced that they now have Women’s Business Centers in all 50 states in addition to Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. The announcement comes following the opening of the admini ...Read more |
| March 30, 2022 | City of Greensboro Launches Supplier Diversity Tracking and Reporting | The City of Greensboro is teaming up with B2Gnow – a leader in providing supplier diversity, procurement and grant management solutions for governments, contractors, and corporations for two deca ...Read more |
| March 29, 2022 | Taxpayers to Fund Most of $1.4b Buffalo Bills Stadium | On Monday, New York State officials reached an agreement with the Buffalo Bills to construct a new stadium. Construction of the project will see the largest-ever taxpayer contribution for an NFL st ...Read more |
| 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 |