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The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) program is an affirmative action program designed to combat discrimination and its continuing effects by providing contracting opportunities on Federally-funded highway, transit, and airport...
The Department has issued a final rule amending its disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) program at 49 CFR Part 26. The final rule improves DBE program implementation in three major areas. First, the rule revises the uniform certification application and reporting forms,...
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Uniform Report Excel Document
US DOT Published Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program
New Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Size Limits as Adjusted for Inflatio. Federal Register Notice - (April 3, 2009) PDF
Questions and Answers regarding the 9th Circuit panel's decision regarding 49 CFR Part 26 and the authorizing statute for the DBE program in TEA-21.
We are providing this sample DBE program for informational purposes, and recipients are not required to use it or its format. However, recipients may wish to use it as a guide in preparing their program documents. Recipients may customize the sample program to fit their circumstances. The three...
The General Counsel of the Department of Transportation has reviewed these goal-setting tips and approved them as consistent with the language and intent of 49 CFR Part 26. This guidance therefore represent the institutional position of the Department of Transportation. These tips on goal-...
Part 26 - Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in Department of Transportation Financial Assistance Programs