SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Maryland Bonding Education Program: Small Businesses Building Big
- Notice Date
- 4/7/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary (OST) Administration Secretariate, Office of the Secretary, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, W83-460, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- Departmentoftransportationsmallbusinessevent
- Archive Date
- 4/30/2011
- Point of Contact
- Tiffany King, Fax: 215-399-0063
- E-Mail Address
-
Tking@gpmbsa.com
(Tking@gpmbsa.com)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Maryland Bonding Education Program: Small Businesses Building Big The US Department of Transportation (DOT) Bonding Education Program (BEP) is a partnership with the Surety and Fidelity Association of America to help small businesses become bond ready. Becoming bondable is a major obstacle for many disadvantaged businesses, and this program aims to address the issue and help businesses grow by becoming bond-ready. The BEP consists of a comprehensive set of all-inclusive workshops designed to address what businesses need to do to become bond-ready, as well as one-on-one sessions with local surety bonding professionals to help in assembling the materials necessary for a complete bond application. This program is tailored to businesses competing for transportation-related contracts. For more detailed information on the BEP program please click on the following link http://osdbu.dot.gov/bap/bep.cfm To participate, businesses must have been in operation for at least 2 years and be certified as one of the following: DBE SBA 8(a) Woman-owned Small Business HUBzone Service Disabled Veteran Owned The company must also be capable of bidding on DOT-funded projects and commit to attend the series of workshops offered in their region. There is also a registration form that is required for entrance into the program. The BEP is offered through DOT's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and its network of Small Business Transportation Resource Centers (SBTRC) around the county. For your region's SBTRC and contact for the program, please visit http://osdbu.dot.gov/regional/all.cfm Thursdays, April 28 th to June 16 th, 2011 Deadline for submitting the registration form is April 15, 2011. All classes will be held at the Maryland Department of Transportation 7201 Corporate Center Drive, Hanover, MD 21076 Contact: Tiffany King at Tking@gpmbsa.com or via fax at 215-399-0063.
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN02419289-W 20110409/110407234328-c1aacf08a4a5c82003a55ffa6e6f433b (fbodaily.com)
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