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The Transportation Authority is committed to advancing equity by providing disadvantaged, local, and small businesses with opportunities to do business with our agency and participate in contracts funded with federal, state, and local dollars.
On an ongoing basis, we establish individual contract goals for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, Local Business Enterprises, and Small Business Enterprises to participate in contracts, and continuously work to monitor and support participation. From January 1 through June 30 of this year, our agency made 15% of our total vendor payments to Disadvantaged Business Enterprise firms, 16% to Local Business Enterprise firms, and 13% to Small Business Enterprise firms. We continue to build on these levels of participation through outreach and engagement with the business community.
Our agency is a member of the Business Outreach Committee, a group of approximately 26 Bay Area transportation agencies with a goal to assist small, disadvantaged, and local firms to do business with Bay Area transportation agencies. This year, we participated in several networking events that brought public agencies together with consultants and contractors to network and learn about upcoming contracting opportunities. Contracting opportunities arise year round and can range from public engagement, engineering, construction, planning services, and more.
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Upcoming networking events for businesses
Virtual Meet the Primes for Professional Services
October 21 from 1:00pm-2:30pm
Transportation Authority staff will join Business Outreach Committee members for a virtual outreach event to connect and introduce small businesses to prime consultants and public transportation agencies in the Bay Area. Various prime consultants will serve as panelists in breakout rooms to answer questions so small businesses can understand how to do business with them and what they are doing to break barriers for new small and disadvantaged businesses.
For questions, please contact Artemisé Davenport, Business Outreach Committee Chair, at adavenport@goldengate.org.
Virtual DBE/LBE Upcoming Opportunity Overview
November 17 from 1:00pm-2:00pm
The Transportation Authority will host a virtual DBE/LBE Upcoming Opportunity Overview event. DBE/LBE firms and consultant firms can learn about upcoming contract opportunities from the Transportation Authority and Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency in the fields of professional and transportation services.
For more information and to register for the event, visit this page.
Apply to do business with us
To apply for the Transportation Authority’s DBE/LBE Program, businesses may find the application on this website.
The Transportation Authority accepts certifications issued by the Transportation Authority, the City and County of San Francisco, the California Unified Certification Program, the California Department of General Services or the California Public Utilities Commission Supplier Clearinghouse.