Gov Contracting 101

The big Chicago contract had a 30% set aside for minority businesses. That means that if you bid 100k their 130 k bid would be considered lower. My wife is president of our business for just that reason. She also happens to have a Hispanic last name. It is a sad state of affairs when we have to play that game in order to level the playing field.
 
California- Calls for many Government and City bids to hold a Small Business clause. Small business recognized as gross receipts under 15million over a 3yr period and less than 100 employees.

I'm not minority, a women, or a disabled veteran, but the Small Business status helps get a foot in the door on many city,county, state projects. I actually just won a bid because of the small business status of my company. Received a 3% bonus as the SB and beat the other bid with the bonus 3%.

Work every angle you can. Also you can bid projects as a prime and bid out 25% of the project to SB,DVBE,SLBE, etc... and still retain the % bonus given to a full fledge minority, women owned etc.... business. It's a game- cross your T's and dot your I's, its tougher without the designations, but there are other angles that help to make it fair for everyone.
 
pretty much what everybody has said. I just went up to the purchasing department explained my services, they referred me to a couple of people. I ended up softwashing the city hall roof and now I should be set to window wash there exterior windows. close to 5,000 profit between those two jobs.
 
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