The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued an Interim Final Rule that eliminated the decades long presumption that women- and minority-owned businesses automatically qualify under a “presumed ...

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 ...

The case at issue, Mid-America Milling Co. et al. v. U.S. Department of Transportation et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky in October 2023 by two ...

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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking that Governor Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) Director Tim Gatz to seek a waiver in awarding contracts ...

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 ...

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For months as the new presidential and Gov. Mike Braun administrations announced waves of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion purges, there was a major program long embedded into state and federal ...

(Bloomberg) -- Vicki Volponi, who sells construction supplies near Charleston, South Carolina, was in a good groove for most of last year. She was on track to book nearly $10 million in sales for the ...