Metro’s Disadvantage/Small Business Enterprise

The California Disadvantage Business Enterprise (DBE) was created so that Minority Owned Business in the State of California can compete on a fairer playing field. SBC Consultants, Inc. uses a Unified Application process which allows those certified to be accepted Statewide, not just by one department. The DBE Program provides a vehicle for ensuring participation by disadvantaged business enterprises with agencies including but not limited to:

• State transportation agencies for highway construction and improvements
• To airports for facilities
• Runways and taxiway improvements
• Ro transit agencies for mass transit projects
• And to municipalities and counties for road improvements

Applying for and obtaining DBE certification status is important, if you desire to participate in the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program you must meet the following criteria:

Eligibility Requirements:

• The firm must be an existing for-profit “Small Business Concern”
• The firm must be at least 51% owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals
• The firm must be owned and controlled by individuals, each of whose personal net worth does not exceed $1,320,000, excluding an individual’s ownership interest in the applicant firm and the individual’s equity in his or her personal, primary residence
• Any individual found to be socially and economically disadvantaged, on a case-by-case basis
• Must be a part of a presumes Socially Disadvantaged group, which include:
• African Americans
• Hispanic Americans
• Native Americans
• Asian-Pacific Americans
• Sub continental Asian Americans
• Women