Understanding Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Certification - And Why Your Company May Now Be Eligible

Includes a Live Web Event on 10/23/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

Overview
Speaker(s)

Experience Level: Any level of experience

Earlier this year, the United States Department of Transportation revised its regulations governing the federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Certification (DBE) program. The DBE program ensures that federally assisted contracts for highway, transit and aviation projects are made available for small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.

The modernization to these regulations opens up this program to many more businesses and businesses that previously participated in the program. Whether you’re a current DBE, previously a DBE, or just curious about DBE certification, this program is for you. This program will be tailored specifically to engineering firms and those in related industries. It will also be helpful to anyone who works in federally assisted contracts for transportation-related projects.

Learning Outcomes:

1. The requirements to participate in the DBE program.

2. Radical changes to the program that will allow more businesses to be certified (including those that were previously denied or that “graduated” from the program).

3. New regulations to reduce the administrative hassle associated with maintaining your certification (including the dreaded annual affidavits and interstate certification)

4. Updates that may affect how long your business can remain a DBE.

5. Strategies for maintaining DBE certification for a multi-owner engineering firm.

6. Ideas for succession planning for multi-owner DBE engineering firms.

1 PDH

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Danielle Dietrich, Esq.

Shareholder

Potomac Law

Danielle Dietrich is a shareholder with Potomac Law with nearly 20 years of legal experience. She works with businesses in a wide variety of industries (including many engineering firms) to obtain and maintain business certifications such as DBE, MBE and WBE. This includes assisting with applications, appealing denials to the USDOT, interstate certification issues, defending decertification proceedings, succession planning strategy, and advising in buy/sell transactions involving DBE, MBE and WBE firms. Known for her blogging and YouTube videos focused on certifications, she also serves as outside general counsel for many of those companies, assisting them with their day-to-day legal needs.