A court has shelved a lawsuit seeking to dismantle an affirmative action program on federal procurement, though the case led to policy changes that favored the plaintiffs. Nearly three years after two ...

A new U.S. Dept. of Transportation rule upends the decades-old program designed to address discrimination in government contracting in a move that agency officials say will level the playing field for ...

A federal judge overseeing an Indiana contractor’s case against the U.S. Department of Transportation said its argument was no longer in dispute after the department changed its framework around ...

Reaffirmed by DDOT as a DBE under USDOT’s new IFR following mandatory reevaluation based on individualized eligibility and financial review. Our DBE certification success reflects our ability to meet ...

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WITHOUT ACTION. NEW TONIGHT SOME IOWA CONTRACTORS AND ENGINEERING FIRMS ARE PREPARING TO LOSE A BIG BUSINESS ADVANTAGE ONCE THE SHUTDOWN ENDS. KCCI PEPPER SPOKE WITH THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF ...

In Mid-America Milling Company v. United States Department of Transportation, Case No. 3:23-cv-00072 (“Mid-America”), the Plaintiffs challenged the United States Department of Transportation’s (“DOT”) ...

For decades, the Arkansas Department of Transportation has awarded contracts to companies owned by women and certain minority groups through the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, but ...

President Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity programs has now hit a longtime mainstay of projects that use U.S. Department of Transportation funds. The more than 1,300 Minnesota small businesses ...