Engineering News-Record

USDOT Removes Race and Sex From DBE Qualifications With Hard-launched Rule

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 ...
JD Supra

DOT Interim Final Rule on DBE Program

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”) ...
JD Supra

DOT Ends Race- and Sex-Based Presumptions of Disadvantage in DBE and ACDBE Programs

Under the current DBE and ACDBE Program rules, women and certain minority groups are entitled to a presumption that they are socially and economically disadvantaged for purposes of determining DBE and ...
KCCI Des Moines

Iowa’s women- and minority-owned contractors could lose a key advantage under new federal rule

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 ...