Federal DBE recertification rules halt project goals nationwide, leaving minority- and women-owned contractors facing lost ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) revised its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program—effective October 3, 2025—to eliminate ...

Around 41,000 companies participate in the national program that awards contracting goals to disadvantaged businesses. They ...

The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program will no longer use race or gender as reasons to qualify. It affects over 1,300 companies in Minnesota.

The Department of Transportation has issued an interim rule that makes significant changes to the eligibility rules and administration procedures used in the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise programs ...

The $1.8B Blatnik Bridge project will employ 1,100 workers, but with no DBE goals, advocates say disadvantaged firms could ...

Since the IIJA encourages the expanded use of design-build contracts, the rule prevents these projects from evading DBE participation obligations. Under the rule, design-builders submitting proposals ...

A growing and alarming trend threatens to undermine the integrity of vital federal government set-asides for minority, women, veteran-owned and small disadvantaged businesses. Unscrupulous companies, ...

San Antonio quietly ended a rule that encouraged city contractors to give a large share of their work—sometimes up to 40%—to ...

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For years in New Orleans, minority- and women-owned businesses have been at a disadvantage when competing for city contracts, despite a city goal of funneling 35% of public work to those firms. A ...