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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), is pleased to announce the new home of the South Atlantic Region, Small Business Transportation Resource Center (SBTRC), as of April 1, 2013. The South Atlantic Region SBTRC is now...
The US Department of Transportation's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (DOT/OSDBU) was created as part of the Small Business Act (SBA) to ensure that small and disadvantaged businesses are provided maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the agency's...
Name Title Email Phone Number Allen Gutierrez OSDBU Director allen.gutierrez@dot.gov (202) 366-1930 Manuel Rosales Special Advisor manuel.rosales@dot.gov (202) 366-1930...
Questions and answers to Part 26, Subpart A of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program Final Rule
FHWA 25-13
U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces $11.5 Million in Emergency Relief Funds for Six States
WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation is providing $11.5 million in emergency...
Under the Supreme Court’s Adarand decision, an affirmative action program like the DOT DBE program must be narrowly tailored. This chart displays how the provisions of the new DOT DBE rule meet each of the narrow tailoring requirements that the Supreme Court has established.
A state-by-state list of DOT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Liaisons and Certification Officers
Department of Transportation regulations require that overall concession goals be calculated consistent with the process in Section 26.45 for setting goals under DOT-assisted projects (49 CFR Section 23.95(a)). The FAA offers the following approach as one way to apply Section 26....
On September 21, 2009, the USDOT announced the "Pilot Entrepreneurial Training and Technical Assistance Women and Girls Program," a partnership with Spelman College in Atlanta, GA created to encourage girls to pursue careers in science, engineering, and technology and help women in the field to...
A firm that is denied certification or whose eligibility is removed by a recipient, including SBA-certified firms applying pursuant to the DOT/SBA MOU, may make an administrative appeal to the Department of Transportation. In addition, a complainant in an ineligibility complaint to a recipient...