Maryland meets minority contracting goals 

Posted: 7:49 pm Mon, November 2, 2009
By Robbie Whelan

The state’s main procurement agency, the Department of General Services, has met its goal for including women- and minority-owned companies in government business for the first time since the goal was set in 2001. A law enacted by Maryland’s General Assembly that year established a target of 25 percent for minority business enterprise, or MBE, participation. ...