M/WBE Business Development Services
Return to InBiz home| State | Does the state sponsor business fairs, trade shows, or other vendor outreach activities for M/WBEs? | Does the state have MBE awards events? | Does the state offer targeted technical services or business development support? | Does the state have a mentor-protégé program? | Does the state operate or fund minority or women-business development centers? |
| Alabama | no | no | The DOT utilizes university centers to do this. The Office of Small Business Advocacy provides this role too. | no | no |
| Alaska | no | no | DOT offers bus dev asst. and provides training/prof org dues reimbursement | no | no |
| Arizona | DOT does matchmaking events | no | DOT provides bus dev asst, cost estimation workshops | no | ? |
| Arkansas | yes, state participates in the Arkansas Minority Bus Dev Roundtable which sponsors trade fairs, expositions, and events to highlight MBEs, such as the Minority Enterprise Development Week. | no | The DOT uses a contractor to provide some; the DED and the Roundtable provide a lot of services | no | no |
| California | no | no | no | DOT only - 30 protégé firms | no |
| Colorado | no | no | The DOT has extensive services, including the workforce BOWD program. The MBO also provides some business development services. | no | no |
| State | Does the state sponsor business fairs, trade shows, or other vendor outreach activities for M/WBEs? | Does the state have MBE awards events? | Does the state offer targeted technical services or business development support? | Does the state have a mentor-protégé program? | Does the state operate or fund minority or women-business development centers? |
| Connecticut | do trade shows, coordinate with SBDCs, vendor presentations. DOT also does outreach | not sure | DOT offers workshops and TA. SDP refers to SBDCs and Ec/Comm Dep | no | no |
| Delaware | The OMWDBE works with each state agency. Has an extensive electronic database for procurement opporunities. DOT has networking mixers. | no | The DOT has extensive services; both DOT and OMWDBE refer firms to SBDCs | yes the DOT | no |
| District of Columbia | They have meetings, convenings, and conferences | no | DOT has a resource center; LSDBE provides some services | no, but LSDBE has a joint venture program similar to M-P | no |
| Florida | yes, throughout the state | yes, DOT has an annual state MBE awards banquet. | yes, there is a bond guarantee (DOT), bus plan assistance | There is a state-wide mentor-protégé program but none listed in DOT | no |
| Georgia | Some with DOT, also coordinate with university run MBE centers | no | The DOT offers business services through consultants. Also state universities provide this. | There is a small business 'Governors' mentor-protégé program | They collaborate with Georgia Tech and U-Georgia MBE centers which receive fed funding |
| Hawaii | DOT does outreach emails and newsletters | no | DOT does bus dev, OSHA, tax workshops | no | no |
| State | Does the state sponsor business fairs, trade shows, or other vendor outreach activities for M/WBEs? | Does the state have MBE awards events? | Does the state offer targeted technical services or business development support? | Does the state have a mentor-protégé program? | Does the state operate or fund minority or women-business development centers? |
| Idaho | DOT DBE has a program newsletter | no | DOT provides one on one counseling; has DBE lending library; provides free plans on state projects | no | no |
| Illinois | BEP had over 50 outreach events in 2006. DOT targets some of their vendor outreach to areas with DBE under-utilization | yes, DOT has an annual state MBE awards banquet. | The BEP refers MBEs to generic small business dev services. The DOT does have very extensive business dev services | DOT has an extensive M-P program | no |
| Indiana | yes, lots of outreach events and power networking | no | Will be doing more but not too much up to now | no | yes, they just opened a MBEC with federal Commerce funding |
| Iowa | yes, the TSB hosts meetings and presentations | no | DOT provides some financial counseling but mainly refers DBEs to other services. TSB has seminars to orient firms to state purchasing procedures. | no | no |
| Kansas | yes the MWBD hosts events and partners with other business advocates to sponsor business education workshops and seminars. | no | yes, the DOT supportive business services program provides extensive services. The MWBD office also organizes workshops on contracting, finance, and business management | no | no |
| State | Does the state sponsor business fairs, trade shows, or other vendor outreach activities for M/WBEs? | Does the state have MBE awards events? | Does the state offer targeted technical services or business development support? | Does the state have a mentor-protégé program? | Does the state operate or fund minority or women-business development centers? |
| Kentucky | The Kentucky Procurement Assistance Center within the Cabinet of Economic Development does some vendor outreach | no | DOT offer entrepreneurship training, TA on bidding, business plans | no | no |
| Louisiana | no | no | DOT used to provide bid estimate and other technical assistance services, but consultant contract expired | no | no |
| Maine | no | no | DOT provides technical assistance and small business training to DBEs through a consultant. Other M/WBEs are referred to general small business services. | no | no |
| Maryland | yes, quarterly outreach events throughout state. | no | yes, primes offer bonding. Firms refered to SCORE, SBDCs. GOMA provides some | yes, 15-16 firms each year are in the MBE M-P program, including DOT DBE firms | no |
| Massachusetts | yes, the AMP hosts annual networking events; 'meet the vendor' series; and trade events with state and local purchasing agents | yes, the AMP hosts an annual awards event | yes, the SOMWBA does some of this | yes, the AMP has 29 pairs | no |
| State | Does the state sponsor business fairs, trade shows, or other vendor outreach activities for M/WBEs? | Does the state have MBE awards events? | Does the state offer targeted technical services or business development support? | Does the state have a mentor-protégé program? | Does the state operate or fund minority or women-business development centers? |
| Michigan | DMB does this at the annual business conference. Most outreach is now electonic due to budget shortfalls. | no | The DOT does training on contract management, financial state development, certification and pre-qualification workshops, electronic bidding, bid preparation, plan reading, and entrepreneurship. Also have construction techs that assist DBEs. | no | no |
| Minnesota | yes, they do trade shows | yes, DOT has an annual state DBE awards banquet. | DOT has extensive business and technical assistance. | DOT has a mentor-protégé program | no |
| Mississippi | State has outreach program and sponsors conferences | no | Individual counseling; business expansion services. DOT consultant provides TA and business dev services | no | no, but the Planning and Development Districts, which run the loan programs, fulfill some of this role |
| Missouri | yes, they do a lot of outreach; just starting now | no | Bonding assistance by DOT for DBEs | Just starting a mentor-protégé program | no |
| Montana | no | no | DOT provides business training and business plan consulting to DBEs. Native firms receive assistance through the State Tribal Econ Dev Council. M/WBEs also referred to Economic Dev Center. | no | yes, through the Native American Development Council |
| State | Does the state sponsor business fairs, trade shows, or other vendor outreach activities for M/WBEs? | Does the state have MBE awards events? | Does the state offer targeted technical services or business development support? | Does the state have a mentor-protégé program? | Does the state operate or fund minority or women-business development centers? |
| Nebraska | no | no | Has a bond surety program for DOT, a little DOT TA. Has specific bu dev services for WBEs and for Latinos in Spanish | no | Do provide funding for women and Hispanic business assistance nonprofits |
| Nevada | no | no | The DOT offers workshops on the application/bidding process, classes on business development and some bonding services | no | no |
| New Hampshire | The DOT has "match-making events" to try to match potential DBE subcontractors to prime contractors on upcoming projects | no | DOT has extensive business and technical assistance. Will refer DEBs to association buying groups to try to lower costs. | no | no |
| New Jersey | DOT does vendor outreach; Commerce does outreach with associations and councils | no | DOT does some of this; not much listed in state program | no | NO |
| New Mexico | much of the vendor outreach in the Home-field Advantage program is to MWBEs | no | DOT provides business management training; State provides tax credit to national labs to provide TA to firms, mainly MWBEs, in engineering, etc.The Homefield Advantage program allows SMWBEs to participate in state insurance pool | no | no, but they do fund the SBDCs at a higher rate than required by federal gov. All SBDCs provide services in Spanish |
| State | Does the state sponsor business fairs, trade shows, or other vendor outreach activities for M/WBEs? | Does the state have MBE awards events? | Does the state offer targeted technical services or business development support? | Does the state have a mentor-protégé program? | Does the state operate or fund minority or women-business development centers? |
| New York | no | no | The DOT just began offering services in 2007 | no | no |
| North Carolina | yes, they have extensive networking events including at the annual state construction trade show. The DOT also has networking, including annual transportation opportunity event | no | The DOT has extensive services, including the workforce BOWD program. The HUB also provides multiple business development services. | Both the DOT and HUB have mentor-protégé programs | yes, it co-funds the MBDC |
| North Dakota | DOT - not much. State coordinates with federally-funded Native American business center on outreach. Women's Bus Ctr also does some vendor outreach. | no | DOT DBE also bus dev services through a consultant. Women's Bus Ctr offers business dev to WBEs | no | yes, the state co-funds a Womens Business Center with SBA |
| Ohio | The DMBA provides some vendor outreach activities | no | Very extensive technical assistance and business dev services, including a bond guarantee | yes, both the DOT and the EDGE program have mentor-protégé programs | yes, it funds 8 Minority Contractors Business Assistance Program centers |
| Oklahoma | Send out information to MBEs. | no | DOT offers bus dev asst. | no | yes, a WBE center |
| Oregon | OMWESB does an annual trade-fair event, but DOT does little | Bidding, procurement, and certification assistance | |||
| State | Does the state sponsor business fairs, trade shows, or other vendor outreach activities for M/WBEs? | Does the state have MBE awards events? | Does the state offer targeted technical services or business development support? | Does the state have a mentor-protégé program? | Does the state operate or fund minority or women-business development centers? |
| Pennsylvania | They organize bidder conferences to match primes with M/WBE subs | DOT offers full business and project TA through consultants. Advice on bonding. Otherwise referred to SBDCs | |||
| Rhode Island | Workshops and information related to procurement opportunities | DOT has TA for marketing, business plans, financial consultants. State does a little one-on-one consulting and refers to SBDCs and nonprofits | The state cooperates with the Minority Investment Dev Corp | ||
| South Carolina | Both SCDOT & OSMBA sponsor workshops, outreach, matchmaking and training events | no | Trainings and workshops. DOT does certification workshops, bus dev trainings. | no | yes, the state co-funds the women's business centers with the SBA |
| South Dakota | DOT sponsors virtual sign-in with DBEs and prime contracators; publishes DBE directory with owner photos | no | DOT provdes extensive technical assistance to individual DBEs or groups; business plan review and recommendations | no | no |
| Tennessee | The GO-DBE sponsors trade shows. The Business Enterprise Resource Office (BERO) sponsors matchmaking events | no | The DOT has a bond guarantee program and all the workshops mentioned. BERO also provides these services to other M/WBEs. | no | no |
| Texas | DOT has one-on-one vendor appointments; Match HUB firms with state agencies and have them make presentations to the agencies. | no | TxDOT has extensive services and the HUB has some but does not monitor other agencies | DOT has one and each state agency with > $5 million procurement should have one | no |
| Utah | DOT DBE does some outreach presentations | no | DOT DBE does workshops and provides technical assistance one-on-one as requested | no | no |
| State | Does the state sponsor business fairs, trade shows, or other vendor outreach activities for M/WBEs? | Does the state have MBE awards events? | Does the state offer targeted technical services or business development support? | Does the state have a mentor-protégé program? | Does the state operate or fund minority or women-business development centers? |
| Vermont | yes, the Dept of Econ Dev has an annual business fair and invites all M/WBEs. Women's Bus Ctr also does vendor outreach with WBEs | no | One-on-one business assistance and business lending library to WBEs through Women's Business Center. DOT DBE has extensive bus dev services and trainings. | no | yes, the state co-funds the Womens Business Center with SBA |
| Virginia | Networking events and workshops | Cost estimation and bidding workshops. Mgt trainings and bonding support | yes, MBE M-P program | ||
| Washington | yes, it does many events and summits | no | yes, the DOT supportive business services program provides all of this, except bond guarantee | no | no |
| West Virginia | no | no | The DOT assists with bid estimates and has an Entrepreneurial Development Institute. DOT provides up to $1500 to DBEs for accounting and legal consulting services. | no | no |
| Wisconsin | Annual trade fair, town halls, other outreach | DOT has bond guarantee; legal services; cost estimation | ? | ||
| Wyoming | yes, the DOT sponsors the Contractors Room, inviting all prime contractors and DBE subcontractors to a meeting to meet and discuss upcoming projects | no | The DOT provides certification assistance, a DBE newsletter, and some business dev assistance. | no | no |
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