Calendar

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Topics/Panels include: Government Contracting Essentials, Discussions with Federal, State, and Local Government Agencies (PTAC), small business contractor success stories, and networking. 

Please RSVP with your name, number, and email to CaseWorkWA09@mail.house.gov. Please include "Procurement Workshop" in the subject line. 

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Want to learn more about the government resources available to your small business to help you go global? Attend this free live webinar hosted by the SBA Seattle District Office and the Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington (EFACW).Click here for more information and registration: https://bit.ly/2ZoKHID

Join the Urban Institute, in collaboration with JPMorgan Chase and Co., for a discussion exploring how some projects, including examples in Seattle and King County, are leveraging Opportunity Zones for community benefit. Panel discussions will highlight mission-driven Opportunity Zone models and explore practical lessons for how the incentive can increase access to affordable space. The first panel will examine Opportunity Zones’ role in advancing affordable housing, and the second panel will focus on how the incentive can support small businesses with affordable commercial spaces.
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The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is beginning the two-step contract procurement  process for the SR 509 Stage 1b Project. WSDOT will hold  an informational meeting for potential Submitters regarding  the first step, Request for Qualifications, on Sep. 11, 2019. 
This is the first of two design-build contracts that will be used to construct the SR 509 Completion Project over the next 9 years. 
The project involves highway, bridge, interchange, and local street construction, as well as two new undercrossings  of I-5. The project will require excavation, trucking and  hauling, paving, demolition, landscaping, traffic control, and  numerous other types of work. Construction is expected to begin in late 2020 and to take about four years to complete. We invite disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) and federal small business enterprise (FSBE) firms to attend and  network with the potential prime contractors for the project.

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Over a hundred Women small business owners are coming together at the Mercer Island Community Center to Connect, Learn and Grow their businesses. As part of this event we are planning to highlight programs and services designed to help local small and micro-businesses succeed.

Conference attendees will learn about useful digital and business tools, develop a network of knowledgeable women business owners and learn about small business resources including yours.

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Are you a subconsultant interested in potentially shifting to a prime role with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) or an existing prime consultant looking for additional information on key expectations and requirements for contracting with SDOT?

If so, join us for the upcoming Working With SDOT: Ready to Prime event September 16 at the Bertha Knight Landes Room where staff will discuss key similarities/differences between engaging on SDOT work as a subconsultant and a prime consultant as well as the different impacts and implications this may have.

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Orientations will provide a learning opportunity to assist in navigating potential business prospects at the University. Suppliers will receive information about the University’s purchasing and payment processes.

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About the Women Who Lead series: 

In this exciting new series, the Puget Sound Business Journal will bring together exceptional women leaders in a variety of industries to discuss their path to the top, the challenges they've encountered along the way, and provide practical wisdom that audience members can use to get ahead in their own careers. 

This event will a feature structured networking time led by a hand-selected group of table moderators, who will help connect less-experienced attendees to each other and the high-level leaders in the room. Questions sparked during this networking time will be discussed on stage by a dynamic panel of women who lead this region's architecture and engineering industry.

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Join the SBA Seattle District Office and other small business organizations on Saturday, Sept. 21 for the free annual Washington Small Business Fair — also known as Biz Fair— to learn from the experts how to start or grow a successful business.
Entering its 23rd year, Biz Fair is the longest running all government and non-profit-run small business fair in Washington state.

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At this forum small businesses will be given the opportunity to learn about access to capital and credit recovery/repair and how to make sense of the funding landscape. 

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Attend a free, in-person orientation at our office. Learn more about King County's contracting process, effective marketing strategies, and tips for submitting successful bids and proposals. Chat with our contract specialists, sustainable purchasing manager, and our small business certification team.

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