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Ensuring equal opportunity for all businesses and personnel on our projects

Proposed Three-Year Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Goals

As a condition of receiving federal money, MnDOT is required by the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration to establish an annual statewide goal for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises to perform on federally funded contracts over the next three years. The annual goal is a percentage of the federal contracting dollars that are targeted for certified DBE firms to perform based on the availability of ready, willing and able firms in Minnesota. 

Proposed Disadvantaged Business Enterprise goals

FHWA-funded contracts: 15.3% of the sum of all to be performed by DBEs.
FTA-funded contracts: 8.7% of the sum of all to be performed by DBEs.

Goal period

The goals will be in effect for Federal Fiscal Year 2025-2027.

Executive summary

Public comment period

June 18 - July 18, 2024.

Comment on the report

The MnDOT Office of Civil Rights welcomes and encourages comments on the proposed DBE goals. Please know that all rulemaking comments are public data. Please submit all comments to ocrformsubmissions.dot@state.mn.us and include the following information:

  • Name (first and last)
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