The Department of Transportation’s (“DOT”) Disadvantage Business Enterprise (“DBE”) program is not as well-known as the Small Business Administration’s (“SBA”) 8(a) and other small business programs, ...
On Oct. 3, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) published its Interim Final Rule (IFR) ending race- and sex-based presumptions of ...
Small business owners in St. Landry Parish and surrounding areas will have an opportunity to gain critical insights on Disadvantaged Business Enterprise certification at the upcoming St. Landry Parish ...
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during an April 2022 event. Buttigieg's Dept. of Transportation has proposed the first rulemaking update to its DBE regulations since 2014. The U ...
DBE entities are for-profit, small businesses, that (1) are majority-owned and controlled by individuals that are deemed socially and economically disadvantaged; (2) are existing businesses that meet ...
October 3, 2025, will be etched in the memory of many small business owners, as a regulation quietly but hugely shifted beneath our feet. I say "quietly," because for many, this change landed like a ...