Implementing Race-neutral Measures in State Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs
Implementing Race-neutral Measures in State Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs

Author: Patrick Casey

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0309143322

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 416: Implementing Race-Neutral Measures in State Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs explores race-neutral strategies being used effectively by state departments of transportation (DOTs) to meet their Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) participation goals. It also reviews and synthesizes problems faced by state DOTs in the administration of their DBE programs and identifies race-neutral remedies used to overcome these challenges. As state DOT's carry out their highway construction programs, they are required to direct a portion of their federal-aid fund expenditures toward small businesses called DBEs. A DBE is defined as a small, for-profit business concern that is at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. States are required to meet the maximum feasible portion of their DBE participation goals using race-neutral means designed to remove barriers and enhance opportunities for all small businesses, not just DBEs.

Disadvantaged Business Enterprises
Disadvantaged Business Enterprises

Author: Ronald Stouffer

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2001-12

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780756716783

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The U.S. Dept. of Transportation's (DoT) Disadvantaged Bus. Enterprise (DBE) program is designed to remedy the effects of current and past discrimination against small bus. owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and to foster equal opportunity in transportation contracting. This report provides info. on: important changes made to the DBE program since 1999; characteristics of DBEs and non-DBEs that receive DoT-assisted highway and transit contracts; evidence of discrim. and other factors that may limit DBEs' ability to compete for DoT-assisted contracts; and the impact of the DBE program on costs, competition, and job creation. Charts and tables.

State Department of Transportation Small Business Programs
State Department of Transportation Small Business Programs

Author: Deirdre D. Kyle

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 030927091X

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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 448: State Department of Transportation Small Business Programs identifies successful strategies that maximize Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program achievements through race-neutral measures." -- Publisher's description.