Milwaukee officials say changes to the Local Business Enterprise Program will provide greater opportunity for local small businesses to contract with the city and serve as prime contractors on projects.

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Milwaukee's Office of Small Business Development plans to hold an informational session on small-business-enterprise certification on Jan. 26.

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With construction proceeding on many large projects across Wisconsin, a frequent topic of discussion is how to ensure women and minority contractors are awarded work on job sites. The Daily Reporter recently sat down with Kevin Long, Cory Nettles and Pamela Ploor, attorneys of the Milwaukee-based law firm Quarles & Brady, to discuss how developers and general contractors can include those groups in sufficient numbers.

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A construction trade group and a chamber of commerce are calling for the elimination of disadvantage requirements in Milwaukee's Small Business Enterprise program. But the city's Office of Small Business Development and several aldermen said that the requirements are needed to ensure contractors who live within the city can get work.

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In the past three years, Milwaukee officials have used special certifications to give 435 businesses a preference in bidding on $533 million worth of city contracts.

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Milwaukee officials are seeking demographic breakdowns of small-business-enterprise owners nearly nine months after a federal court settlement forced the city to kill its race and gender contract set-asides.

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Mavid Construction Services LLC, Green Bay, recently received a Small Business Enterprise certification in Milwaukee to designate it as a Native American-owned business.

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A Milwaukee Water Works roofing project bid request has been amended again, bumping the small-business enterprise requirement back up to its original 20 percent.

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The Milwaukee Water Works has slashed the small-business enterprise requirement on a roofing contract for the Linnwood Water Purification Plant after the first attempt to find a contractor failed.

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The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors unanimously overrode a county executive veto Thursday to amend the definition of a small business enterprise.

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