Doing Contract Business with Gwinnett County Government: DBE Edition

Please join Gwinnett County Government on discussing the County’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Triennial Plan. This workshop will help you understand the process of becoming a registered DBE as well as how to do business with Gwinnett! You will also learn about upcoming construction projects with the Department of Transportation.

Workshop Agenda:

9:00 AM Breakfast and Registration

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Presentations:

• Gwinnett County Government DBE Plan

• Construction/Project Opportunities

• How to register as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise

• Doing Business with Gwinnett County Government

Host: Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, Office of Community Outreach

Date and Time: Wednesday August 30th, 2017 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Location: Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, 6500 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth GA, USA

Contact Information: Sylvia Goalen, Community Outreach Program Coordinator/DBE Coordinator: Sylvia.goalen@gwinnettcounty.com or 770-822-8980

Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, Office of Community Outreach

Additional Information about DBE:

DBEs are for-profit small business concerns where socially and economically disadvantaged individuals own at least a 51% interest and also control management and daily business operations.

African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian-Pacific and Subcontinent Asian Americans, and women are presumed to be socially and economically disadvantaged. Other individuals can also qualify as socially and economically disadvantaged on a case-by-case basis.

Requirements for DBE:

To participate in the DBE program, a small business owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals must receive DBE certification from the relevant state– generally through the state Uniform Certification Program (UCP).

To be regarded as economically disadvantaged, an individual must have a personal net worth that does not exceed $1.32 million. To be seen as a small business, a firm must meet SBA size criteria AND have average annual gross receipts not to exceed $22.41 million. Size limits for the airport concessions DBE program are higher.