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DBE Compliance Made Simple For Small to Mid-Size Organizations

As the leader in business diversity and prevailing wage labor compliance solutions, we understand the unique challenges of managing small to mid-size DBE programs.

That’s why, we’ve created a package specifically designed to help small to mid-size transportation organizations streamline and automate the process of data collection, compliance, and reporting, as required by 49 CFR Part 26, at a fraction of the cost.

DBE Direct Compliance Tracking Solution

Streamline DBE Compliance & Tracking, at a Fraction of the Cost.

  • Track FHWA, FAA, FTA funding and generate one-click, Uniform Reports for each mode, including detailed worksheet tabulation for calculation verification
  • Multi-tier subcontractor monitoring with real-time NAICS validation, payment reporting and verification
  • Log change orders to ensure accurate contract totals and participation
  • Real-time access to your applicable UCP/DBE/ACDBE directories with business name, DBA name, owner, keyword, commodity code, description search, and download capabilities
  • Used by over 100 recipients, certifying agencies, and UCPs for DBE program activities
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Automates processes and creates program visibility

  • Interactive payment auditing engages primes and subs at all levels (up to 10) ensures awareness of compliance requirements
  • Linked certification directories ensure visibility of certification status and all tiers of certified firm activity
  • Highlights potential areas of over concentration and areas of under representation
  • Standard dashboard feature provides at-a-glance goal attainment for fiscal year to date and previous year achievements
  • Contract alerts highlight noncompliance and key project milestones on the system dashboard

Streamlines reporting

  • Semi-Annual Uniform Report is standard in the system; guaranteed compliance with federal reporting requirements
  • 400+ standard reports available. Power BI offers additional flexibility for your organization’s custom reporting needs.
  • Disparity study data collection and reporting ensures adequate data collection

Encourages vendor engagement and participation

  • Conduct outreach campaigns to certified small and diverse firms
  • Vendor portal simplifies registration and helps ensure that vendor data is current
  • Easy to follow prompts for self-reporting of payment amounts and dates, available on mobile devices.
  • Ability to upload documents substantiating payment and contractual transactions for prime and sub activities
  • Confidential communication between subs and compliance officers
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DBE Direct for Small to Mid-Size*

*Intended for small to mid-size organizations. Reduced capacity from standard client modules. Package pricing not available through RFP. For entities interested in cooperative contracts, options include NASPO, Texas DIR, New York OGS. Resellers include SHI International, Insight, Carasoft and COW-G.

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Directory Connections
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Streamlined DBE Direct Implementation

Focus on Achieving Business Diversity Goals, Not Chasing Paper

  • Automate the tracking of participation and payments through the entirety of your projects
  • Contract audits help your team to ensure that payments are accounted for and reported at the right time – eliminating the need for manual calculations, and greatly reducing the risk of error
  • Available detailed worksheets make it easy to validate the data behind the numbers
  • Select the desired parameters, and with the click of a button, B2Gnow generates the Uniform report data
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The Industry Leader

Numbers don’t lie, and neither does our legacy. As industry pioneers, we’ve transformed supplier diversity and grant management compliance with unrivaled software solutions, setting the standards that others follow.

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“They are committed to the success of their system beyond deployment by providing ongoing training, ad hoc reports, and system updates in response to Federal regulation changes.”

Caltrans

“With B2Gnow you can see trends – where you’re growing, where your expansion could be. If you don’t know where you are or where you’ve been, you won’t know where you’re going.”

Chicago Public Schools

“B2Gnow saves you so much time and energy. You have the time to actually see how you can make your program better versus spending all of your time reviewing documentation and process procedures. It’s been a huge help.”

Chicago Transit Authority

“Prior to leveraging B2Gnow, we were receiving over 1,200 paper reports monthly. B2Gnow has seamlessly automated this monthly report process through its audit feature. Now the responsibility is on the subcontractors to confirm receipt of payments within the B2Gnow system.”

City of Fort Worth

“B2Gnow saves us a great deal of money because it generates thousands of faxes and emails. If we were to match that annually, it would require many human resources and postage costs.”

City of Houston

“They are knowledgeable and highly competent in all aspects of each project and our needs are always completely met.”

Florida Department of Transportation

“You have never lost that great customer service. You always respond to our questions and concerns and go that extra mile. It’s a pleasure doing business with you.”

Houston Airport System

“Great customer service. All my questions were answered, and I was guided through the screens I needed to complete.”

MetroWest Regional Transit Authority

“We’re a small airport and staffing hasn’t grown even though plane passengers have tripled. We needed a system to ease the job, and B2Gnow was there to save the day with their auditing dashboards and to make my job a lot easier.”

St. Pete – Clearwater International Airport

“This system has elements we needed to bring our grant management area under control. The time-savings for us only continues to grow.”

State Agency

“With B2Gnow system every document is in one place and right at our fingertips with a simple search. B2Gnow has made it much easier to report and prove our compliance to the FTA. With B2Gnow, there is more automation, which leads to better data integrity.”

State DOT

“With everything going paperless, leveraging this type of technology is a big benefit in terms of efficiency,”

Tampa International Airport

“We can conduct contract audits to see if there are any issues. B2Gnow even reports which sub-contractors have been paid and when. It saves so much time, and the cost of the tool is 100% worth the investment.”

Transit Authority

“B2Gnow allows general contractors to load the sub-contractors that they are using, showing if they are certified and meeting goals, that is definitely my favorite feature.”

University of Texas System

“The methods are easy to access, and grants and reimbursement requests are signed electronically, reducing processing time and increasing productivity. As the lead for this conversion at Aeronautics, I have also received high compliments from our airports, sponsors and consultants on this system.”

Wyoming Aeronautics Division

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B2Gnow Supplier Diversity Software has your organization covered for all current, proposed, and future DBE and ACDBE regulation updates. We’re trusted by over 400 state, local and educational organizations, we’re standing by, ready to get you onboarded and in compliance, so you can seamlessly automate, manage, track and report on the requirements of your DBE and ACDBE programs.

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DBE Direct Compliance Tracking Solution FAQs

DBE Direct compliance tracking is an offering designed specifically to support small to mid-size transportation organizations manage their Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) compliance program by streamlining and automating the process of data collection, compliance, and reporting, as required by 49 CFR Part 26, at a fraction of the cost.

B2Gnow is the leading provider of DBE compliance software. Simply put, the B2Gnow system was designed for 49 CFR Part 26, and B2Gnow guarantees that the system will always be in compliance with the current, future and proposed DBE regulations.

B2Gnow is the nations trusted provider for DBE compliance software and used by more than 400 organizations of all sizes across the US. B2Gnow software provides an enterprise system – supporting thousands of concurrent users submitting compliance data, contract payments, certification applications, and self-updating contact information. The system is designed to maximize vendor participation, emphasize vendor responsibility and accountability, and reduce staff time required to enter and manage data. At the same time, it generates required reports to minimize staff effort to compile the data. The functionality of B2Gnow software and the flexibility of the platform are unmatched by any other package available.

Yes! B2Gnow software is not only the most comprehensive and widely implemented Diversity Management and DBE Compliance solution available, it is also user-friendly. B2Gnow is a hosted, low-cost, turn-key solution that provides substantial efficiencies and immediate return on investment.

Yes! B2gnow is Soc 2, Type 2 certified. B2Gnow has implemented industry-standards for security access control including user specific logins, complex passwords, password expiration, concurrent logins (not permitted), and the ability to restrict or permit access based on IP range. B2Gnow protects against unauthorized data access on several levels. Each individual accessing the system is required to have a unique login and password. The system enforces complex password requirements and does not permit concurrent logins. The system incorporates a triple-tier firewall architecture and is monitored 24/7, both internally and by 3rd-party firms, for intrusion detection and unauthorized access.

Absolutely. B2Gnow has experience with implementing and maintaining over 500 interfaces with multiple external systems.

Yes! B2Gnow provides a host of support services to best serve each organization’s needs. Additionally, B2Gnow offers regular training webinars and an annual user training event.

B2Gnow is the nations trusted provider for DBE compliance software and used by more than 400 organizations, including airport authorities, departments of transportation, transits, and more, of varying sizes across the country.

In order to learn more about B2Gnow’s DBE Direct package and its DBE compliance software solutions, please request a demo.