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| June 13, 2022 | LA Backs Minority, Women, and Veteran Bonding Program | A program meant to help expand opportunities for small businesses, minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and disabled veteran-owned businesses is expanding into Los Angeles county. ...Read more |
| June 7, 2022 | San Diego Aiming for More Diverse Participation in Public Works | San Diego seeks to become California’s leading city in bringing about public works participation for women and minority owned firms. City officials also want to tackle any barriers that disabled ...Read more |
| May 17, 2022 | Disabled Vets Continue to Lose Out On Government Contracts | Over the years Congress and state governments have enacted various laws to support veteran and disabled veteran-owned businesses. A key goal has been to assist veterans as they reintegrate into civ ...Read more |
| February 25, 2022 | TriMark USA to Pay $48.5M for Fraudulently Procuring Disabled Vet Contracts | On Wednesday, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, Vanessa Waldref, and Carla Freeman, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced that ...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 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 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 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 |
| November 26, 2021 | SDVOSBs Get Contract Set-Asides with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | The Small Business Office of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defence Command (USASMDC) has launched its first service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) Set Aside contract program. < ...Read more |
| November 24, 2021 | DOT Infrastructure Spending State-by-State | The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has released state-by-stat ...Read more |