{"id":811,"date":"2019-10-15T11:12:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/?p=811"},"modified":"2019-10-15T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:13:12","slug":"minority-women-owned-business-enterprise-certification-workshop-oct-24th-dont-miss-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/2019\/10\/15\/minority-women-owned-business-enterprise-certification-workshop-oct-24th-dont-miss-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority & Women-Owned Business Enterprise certification workshop (Oct 24th – Don’t miss out!)"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThursday, October 24, 2019 | 2:00 PM \u2013 4:00 PM | Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Come meet representatives from the Commonwealth\u2019s Operational Service Division (OSD) and the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development to learn more about how you can officially certify your business as a Minority Business Enterprise\u00a0(MBE), Women Business Enterprise\u00a0(WBE), Veteran Business Enterprise\u00a0(VBE) or Portuguese Business Enterprise\u00a0(PBE).<\/p>\n

Designed for businesses who are new to state procurement and interested in learning how to do business with the Commonwealth and the City of Boston, this workshop includes a summary of the State’s goods and services procurement process; an overview of OSD programs and services, including Supplier Diversity Certification, the Supplier Diversity Program (SDP), and Small Business Purchasing Program (SBPP); and live demonstration of where to find bidding opportunities in COMMBUYS, the state\u2019s e-procurement market center.<\/p>\n

Getting certified as a MBE, WBE, VBE or PBE gives you access to opportunities to sell to the\u00a0government.<\/p>\n

Refreshments will be served!<\/p>\n

Hosted by U.S. Haitian Chamber of Commerce, Inc. \/ Haitian American Business Expo, Inc.<\/p>\n

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Thursday, October 24, 2019 | 2:00 PM \u2013 4:00 PM | Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library Come meet representatives from the Commonwealth\u2019s Operational Service Division (OSD) and the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development to learn more about how you can officially certify your business as a Minority Business Enterprise\u00a0(MBE), Women Business Enterprise\u00a0(WBE), Veteran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}