Database Features:

• Convenient site for matching procurement opportunities with providers  vendors and suppliers.
• Daily updates
• E-mail notifications to match opportunities and providers of services
• Comprehensive opportunities from public and private sources
• Link with national database from U.S. Department of Commerce
• Minority-owned businesses certified by the SRMBC and the MBDA.

Database Training and Dissemination:

• Database training sessions for minority-owned businesses in the database
• Notices to public and private procurement departments about database features
• Increased access of minority-owned businesses to sub-contracting opportunities matched to       appropriate providers
• Increased sub-contractor notification and knowledge of bidding opportunities
• Referrals of minority-owned businesses to appropriate professional resources, seminars, and       educational opportunities to help them become certified or qualified

Benefits:

• Greater focus and specific matching of MBEs with bidding opportunities
• Daily updates
• Greater variety of MBEs involved in the bidding and procurement process
• Easier access to local MBEs
• Providing resources to better suit the MBEs with bidding opportunities