ODOT expands contract program.Byline: Sherri Sherri is a given name, and may refer to:
The Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. Department of Transportation is giving small businesses throughout the state a chance to get a piece of its big public projects. As of Monday Monday: see week. , the department expanded a year-old pilot project in the Portland area to cover the rest of the state. Under the department's Small Business Contracting Program for Professional and Technical Services, firms can register to be considered as consultants on department contracts valued at $74,990 or less annually. More than 160 firms have registered with the department as part of the Portland-area pilot program. So far, 10 of those firms are under contract with the department for work worth a total of nearly $750,000. An additional five contracts are under development, which should push the contracted value well above $1 million, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the department. Spokeswoman Karen Jones Jackley said the department isn't striving to register a specific number of small businesses for the program. "We're just hoping for really good participation by small firms," she said. "More than 150 firms are registered already, so there's a lot of interest out there in the small business community, and ODOT ODOT Oregon Department of Transportation ODOT Ohio Department Of Transportation ODOT Oklahoma Department of Transportation is viewing this as a good way to get work out to that small business community." The department has long contracted with smaller firms, but it didn't have an organized program like this one to encourage it, Jones Jackley said. "The importance of this opportunity for the growth of small business in transportation cannot be overstated o·ver·state tr.v. o·ver·stat·ed, o·ver·stat·ing, o·ver·states To state in exaggerated terms. See Synonyms at exaggerate. o ," director Matt Garrett said in prepared remarks. "These businesses help strengthen the state's economy, create jobs, and bring diversity and innovation to the transportation table." The small business contracting program is part of the department's Small Business Initiative - an effort to increase economic opportunities for Oregon workers and businesses. The vast majority of Oregon businesses are small. The Oregon Economic and Community Development Department The Oregon Economic and Community Development Department (ECDD) is an agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon, providing support of economic and community development and cultural enhancement through administration of a variety of programs of incentives, financial estimates that 90 percent of all businesses in the state have 20 or fewer employees. The U.S. Small Business Administration reported in 2005 that of the almost 26 million firms nationwide, 97.5 percent have fewer than 20 employees. Despite their size, those firms account for half of the U.S. nonfarm real gross domestic product and have generated 60 percent to 80 percent of the net new jobs in the past decade, according to the SBA SBA abbr. Small Business Administration Noun 1. SBA - an independent agency of the United States government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government . CONTRACT PROGRAM For more information, go to www.oregon.gov/ ODOT/smallcontracting program.shtml. Registration forms will be posted at http://orpin .oregon.gov |
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