Learn How Senator Sanders Preps Local Women And Minority Businesses For The $16 Billion Dollars In Airport Redevelopment Opportunities

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NY State Senator James Sanders Brings MWBE Procurement Fair to SE Queens

Senator James Sanders Jr. (D-Rochdale Village, Far Rockaway) Chair of the NYS Senate Task Force on Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises hosted an MWBE Procurement Fair on Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at the Raddison Hotel JFK. It was an all-day event extending from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. and was followed by a complimentary dinner. 

The procurement fair was particularly timely, given the $10 billion rebuild of JFK Airport, which will provide extensive economic opportunities for MWBE contractors in the Borough of Queens, and throughout the New York Metropolitan Region. LaGuardia Airport is in the midst of a $4 billion revamp that began in June 2016 and is expected to be completed by 2021.  Increasing the utilization of MWBE firms in state contracting is key to the success of the MWBE program.  In 2014, Governor Cuomo set the nation's highest goal for MWBE procurement at 30 percent.

Minority And Women Entrepreneurs Learn To Get A Piece Of The $10 Billion Dollar JFK Redevelopment Project

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By Dujon Ricks and Kamau Austin

Some of the largest Black, women, and minority companies in the world became successful from getting contracts with national, state, and local governments.  For instance the largest Black company in the US: Worldwide Technologies, is a multibillion dollar privately held company.  It became a big business largely due to getting contracts with various levels of the government.

Blacks, women, and minorities are levied hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes a year.  Therefore, it is only fair that the government also provide fair opportunities for businesses of Blacks, women, and minority citizens.  Also in Southeast Queens there will be a $10 Billion dollar investment in JFK International Airport.

We are happy that NYS Senator James Sanders Jr. is stepping up to help Southeast Queens residents who are women, Blacks, or other ethnic minorities get a fair shot at winning lucrative government contracts.  If you are a Black, women, Latino, or other ethnic minority entrepreneur you owe it to yourself to learn about the competitive bidding and government contracting or procurement process at this event. This is called the Minority Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) Procurement Fair...