Laws enacted over the past 45 years require government departments and agencies to ensure a certain percentage of their purchasing contracts go to women-owned businesses. In addition, hundreds of national corporations are diversifying their supplier base by doing business with women-owned companies. Your invitation to this prosperity party is known as Woman Business Enterprise certification.
Public- and private-sector entities purchase a whole smorgasbord of goods and services. Some of the items include agricultural equipment, electrical cables, highway infrastructure, hospital construction, industrial machinery, mass transportation parts and accessories, plumbing fixtures and waste treatment chemicals. But did you know that billions of dollars are also spent on services like architecture and design, communications and PR, computer software consulting, data processing, HR and employee development, marketing consulting, printing and property leasing?
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