• Contractors hired by states with federal funding would face changes in the federal rules governing the participation of disadvantaged business enterprises if proposed rules are finalized in their current form.
• The U.S. Department of Transportation would like to have bids include the DBEs that would be hired. Current rules allow submitting the identities with the bid or later.
• Another change would alter the standards for a low bidder to submit documentation of good faith efforts to find DBEs to do work.

From the article:

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on Sept. 6, 2012, issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asking for comment on significant changes it is proposing in its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) rules. ...