Your purchasing department
Your city/county/region agency to support small businesses
Your state's agency supporting small businesses
Small Business Administration

They all have tie info, classified according to federal classifications --
e.g., $ and personnel thresholds differ for different industries.

Chuck

At 09:52 AM 5/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I am looking for a couple of good sources that can be used for identifying
>small disadvantaged businesses, women owned businesses, minority owned
>businesses, etc. for purposes of fulfilling the requirements of one of our
>small business plan contracts.  Wondering if anyone would be willing to
>point me in the right direction and provide a few comments about the
>quality/value of the source(s).
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Deb
>
>
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