Resources for Small Businesses
As part of our Small Business Program, WSP USA periodically offers training sessions for small/disadvantaged business concerns. See Outreach Opportunities. In certain limited situations we will also assist small/disadvantaged businesses achieve small business certification. Email our Small Business Liaison Officer at SBLO@wsp.com for additional information.
In addition to offering the above resources, we also offer the below list of external resources. Email our Small Business Liaison Officer at SBLO@wsp.com to suggest additional resources:
General Resources
Federal Resources
- DOT DBE Unified Certification Program
- FAR 19 Small Business Programs
- SAM System for Award Management
- SBA Mentor Protégé Program
- DOT Mentor-Protege Pilot Program
- DOT Small Business Page
- SBA SUB-NET
- SBA Directory of Federal Government Prime Contractors with Subcontracting Plans
- SBA Dynamic Small Business Search
- SBA Small Business Certification
- The U.S. Small Business Administration
- SBA's Size Standards Tool
- Federal Procurement Data System
- Acquisition.gov
- USASpending.gov
- FedConnect
- DoD FedMall (formerly DoD eMALL)
State Resources
All States Small Business Exchange List of State Certifications
Alabama
- Alabama State Program: Office of Minority Business Enterprise
- Alabama "ALDOT" Unified Certification Program
- Alabama SBA District Office
- Alabama Small Business Development Center Network
Alaska
- Alaska Unified Certification Program (“AUCP”)
- Alaska Procurement Technical Assistance Center
- Alaska SBA District Office
Arizona
- Arizona Unified Certification Program ("AZ UTRACS")
- Arizona ADOT: Small Business Concern Registration
- Arizona: City of Phoenix Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Certification Programs
- Arizona: City of Phoenix Certification & Compliance System
- Arizona: City of Tucson Small Business Enterprise
- Arizona: Pima County Small Business Enterprise Participation Program
- Arizona: Small Business Association
- Arizona: SBA Arizona District Office
Arkansas
- Arkansas: Minority Business Enterprise Certification
- Arkansas Unified Certification Program
- Arkansas: SBA Arkansas District Office
California
- California Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise
- California: Alameda County Small Local Emerging Business Program
- California: City of Long Beach Small Business Certification
- California: City of Sacramento Local Business Enterprise Program
- California: City & County of San Francisco Office of Small Business
- California: Los Angeles County Local Small Business Enterprise Program
- California: Small Business Development Centers of California
- California: Caltrans DBE Supportive Services
Colorado
- Colorado: Overview of Colorado Certifications
- Colorado Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program
- Colorado Unified Certification Program
- Colorado: City & County of Denver, Office of Economic Development & Opportunity
- Colorado: Regional Transportation District DBE/SBE Program
- Colorado: Small Business Development Center Network
Connecticut
- Connecticut SBE/MBE Municiapl Certification Outreach Program
- Connecticut Unified Certification Program
- Connecticut: SBA Connecticut District Office
Delaware
- Delaware's Office of Supplier Diversity
- DelDOT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program
- City of Wilmington Minority Business Enterprise Office
- Delaware SBA's District Office
District of Columbia ("D.C.")
- D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development
- D.C. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
- D.C. District Department of Transportation Disadvantaged Business Enterprises
- WMATA MBE/SBP/MBP Program
- SBA Washington D.C. District Office
- D.C. Small Business Development Center
Florida
- Florida Department of Management Services Certification
- Florida Department of Transportation DBE Certification
- Florida Vendor Information Portal
- Florida: Broward County Small Business Certification
- Florida: SBA North Florida District Office
- Florida: SBA South Florida District Office
Georgia
- Georgia Small Business Certification Overview
- Georgia: City of Atlanta: Office of Contract Compliance
- Georgia: City of Savannah: Business Opportunity Program
- Georgia Department of Administrative Services Suppliers
- Georgia: Dekalb County Small Business Resource Center
- Georgia: Dekalb County Local Small Business Enterprise Application
- Georgia: Fulton County M/FBE Registration
- Georgia: SBA Georgia District Office
Hawaii
- Hawaii: SBA Hawaii District Office
- Hawaii Department of Transportation
- Hawaii Small Business Development Center
Idaho
Illinois
- Illinois: City of Chicago Certification M/WBE Program
- Illinois: City of Chicago Find Disadvantaged Business Enterprises
- Illinois: Chicago Minority Supplier Development Council
- Illinois: Cook County MBE/WBE/VBE/SDVBE/PDBE Certification
- Illinois: Chicago Transit Authority Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program
- Illinois DOT Uniform Certification Program
- Illinois UCP DBE Directory
- Illinois: SBA Illinois District Office
- Illinois Tollway Diversity and Strategic Development
Indiana
- Indiana Minority and Women's Business Enterprise Division
- Indiana: Indianapolis International Airport Supplier Diversity Program
- Indiana INDOT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program
- Indiana Procurement Technical Assistance Center Vet Owned Business Certification
- Indiana: SBA's Indiana District Office
Iowa
- Iowa Targeted Small Business (TSB) Certification Web Site
- Iowa Targeted Small Business Search
- Iowa Department of Transportation Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program
- Iowa: SBA Des Moines District Office
Kansas
- Kansas Department of Transportation Unified Certification Program
- Kansas Minority and Women Business Development
- Kansas Office of Procurement and Contracts
- Kansas: SBA Witchita District Office
- Kansas: SBA Kansas City District Office
Kentucky
- Kentucky Louisville Human Relations Commission Certification System
- Kentucky Minority & Women Business Certification Program
- Kentucky Purchasing and eProcurement Services
- Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Civil Rights & Small Business Development
- SBA Kentucky District Office
Louisiana
- Louisiana Economic Development
- Louisiana New Orleans Disadvantaged Business Program
- Louisiana Office of State Procurement
- Louisiana's Small Entrepreneurship (Hudson Initiative) Program
- Louisiana Unified Certification Program
- SBA Louisiana District Office
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Cambridge Women and Minority-Owned Business Assistance
- Massachusetts: SBA's Massachusetts' District Office
- Massachusetts: Springfield Small Business Assistance
- Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office
- Massachusetts Unified Certification Program
- Massachusetts Small Business Purchasing Program
Michigan
- Michigan Department of Transportation Unified Certification Program
- Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council
- Michigan SBA District Office
Minnesota
- Minnesota Department of Transportation Small Business and DBE Certification Process
- Minnesota Hennepin County, Ramsey County, and Saint Paul County Certification System
- Minnesota: Saint Paul Minnesota Central Certification Program
- Minnesota: SBA District Office
- Minnesota Small Business Office
- Minnesota State Small Business Credit Initiative
- Minnesota Targeted Group/Economically Disadvantaged/Veteran-Owned (TG/ED/VO) Small Business Program
Mississippi
- Mississippi City of Jackson Equal Business Opportunity Program
- Mississippi Department of Transportation DBE Program
- Mississippi Minority Business Certification Program
- Mississippi Minority Business Directory
- Mississippi SBA District Office
Missouri
- Missouri: City of Kansas City Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
- Missouri Office of Equal Opportunity Supplier Diversity
- Missouri SBA St. Louis District Office
Montana
- Montana (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
- Montana Indian Business Alliance
- Montana SBA District Office
Nebraska
- Nebraska City of Omaha Small and Emerging Small Business Program
- Nebraska DOT Office of Civil Rights DBE Unified Certification Program
- Nebraska SBA District Office
Nevada
- Nevada Emerging Small Business Certification
- Nevada: City of Las Vegas Supplier Diversity Program
- Nevada DOT DBE Program
- Nevada DOT DBE Useful Links
- SBA Nevada District Office
New Hampshire
New Jersey
- New Jersey Small Business Registration
- New Jersey DOT Disadvantaged and Small Business Programs Unit
- New Jersey Small Business Set-Aside Program
- New Jersey: The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
- New Jersey SBA District Office
New Mexico
- New Mexico SBA District Office
- New Mexico In-State Veteran Preference Certification
- New Mexico DOT Office of Equal Opportunity Programs
New York
- New York State Unified Certification Program "NYSUCP"
- New York NYSUCP directory
- New York State Division of Service-Disabled Veteran's Business Development
- New York City Economic Development Council M/W/DBE Programs
- New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Small Business Certification Requirements
- New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Small Business Mentoring Program
- New York State Empire State Development Division of Minority and Women's Business Development
- New York NYS M/WBE Directory
- New York State Economic Development Small Business Division
- New York: Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Supplier Diversity Program
- New York: SBA Buffalo District Office
- New York: SBA New York District Office
- New York: SBA Syracuse District Office
North Carolina
- North Carolina Small Business Enterprise (SBE) Certification
- North Carolina Dept. of Administration Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses
- North Carolina Macklenburg County's Minority, Women and Small Business Enterprise Program
- North Carolina SBA District Office
- North Carolina DOT DBE Program
- One N.C. Small Business Program
- North Carolina Interactive Purchasing System - Vendor Registration
North Dakota
Ohio
- Ohio Minority & Small Business Certification
- Ohio City of Cincinnati Minority, Women and Small Business Certification
- Ohio City of Cleveland Business Certification through Office of Equal Opportunity
- Ohio Department of Transportation Business & Economic Opportunity
- Ohio SBA Columbus District Office
- Ohio SBA Cleveland District Office
- Ohio Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority DBE Program
- Ohio DAS-GSD MBE/EDGE Certification
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma DOT DBE Directory of Certified Firms
- Oklahoma DOT DBE Information
- SBA Oklahoma District Office
Oregon
- Oregon Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity (COBID)
- Oregon ODOT Civil Rights including DBE Program
- OMWESB Certification Directory
- Oregon Metro Minority, Women and Emerging Small Business Program
- Oregon Port of Portland Small Business Development Program
- Oregon SBA Portland District Office
Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Small Business Contracting Program
- Pennsylvania Minority, Women & Veteran Businesses
- Pennsylvania DOT Unified Certification Program
- Pennsylvania SEPTA DBE Program
- Pennsylvania SBA Philadelphia District Office
- Pennsylvania SBA Pittsburgh District Office
- Pennsylvania City of Philadelphia Office of Economic Opportunity
Rhode Island
- The Rhode Island Minority Business Enterprise
- The Rhode Island DBE Directory Search
- Rhode Island SBA District Office
South Carolina
- South Carolina DOT Small Business Enterprise Program
- South Carolina Division of Small and Minority Business Contracting and Certification
- South Carolina SBA District Office
- South Carolina City of Columbia Contractor & Supplier Diversity
- South Carolina Vendors/Contractors - Vendor Registration
South Dakota
Tennessee
- Tennessee Governor's Office of Diversity Business Enterprise
- Tennessee Registration for Certification
- Tennessee Department of Transportation DOT Small Business Development Program
- Tennessee Diversity Business Certified Directory
- Tennessee: City of Memphis Certification
- Tennessee: City of Knoxville Small Business & Diversity Outreach
- SBA Tennessee District Office
Texas
- Texas DOT Small Business Enterprise Program
- Texas DOT DBE Program
- Texas: Austin Certification for Small Business Enterprise
- Texas HUB Certification Process
- Texas: City of Houston Office of Business Opportunity
- Texas: Forth Worth Business Equity
- Texas: City of Dallas M/WBE Program
- Texas: SBA Dallas/Fort Worth District Office
- Texas: SBA El Paso District Office
- Texas: SBA Lower Rio Grande Valley District Office
- Texas: SBA Houston District Office
- Texas: SBA Lubbock District Office
- Texas: SBA San Antonio District Office
Utah
- Utah Small Business Development Center
- Utah: UTA Disadvantaged Business Enterprises
- Utah DOT DBE Information
- Utah SBA District Office
Vermont
- Vermont Agency of Transportation Civil Rights
- Vermont DOT DBE Directory
- Vermont DOT DBE Program Elements
- SBA Vermont District Office
Virginia
- Virginia Small Business and Supplier Diversity
- Virginia Small Women-owned and minority owned business (SWaM)
- Virginia DOT Getting Started as a DBE
- Virginia DOT Small Business Enterprise Program
- SBA Richmond District Office
Washington
- Washington State Office of Minority & Women's Business Enterprises
- Washington State Office of Minority & Women's Busienss Enterprises Certification Page
- Washington State DOT DBE Program
- SBA Seattle District Office
West Virginia
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program
- Wisconsin Supplier Diversity Program- Business Certifications
- Wisconsin: City of Milwaukee Office of Small Business Development
- Wisconsin DOT DBE Program
- Wisconsin: SBA District Office
Wyoming