About Us
Our Presenting Sponsors
Minority Business Consortium (MBC)
The Minority Business Consortium is a Diversity and Inclusion Business Consultant firm for private and public agencies throughout the region. See www.minoritybusinessconsortium.comMBC is engaged with public and private agencies helping engage small, diverse firms ready, willing and able to bid on major projects reaching into the billions of dollars. Our work includes encouraging participation in these projects, helping develop and monitor DBE/SBE Goals, identifying potential subcontracting opportunities, monitoring contracts for compliance with the established Goals and implementing an effective Mentor/Protegee Program while monitoring for desired results.
Our projects include: VTA BART Phase II, Valley Water District, The 49ers Levy Stadium (Construction and day to day operations), NFL Super Bowl, Google Downtown West Campus, County of Santa Clara, and others.
Past Presenting Sponsor
Valley Transportation Authority
In partnership with MBC, Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in 2021 became co-sponsors of Bay Area Diversity Business Form. VTA's Business Diversity Programs includes a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program for federally funded projects; a Small Business Enterprise (SBE) program for state funded projects; and Minority Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE), Disabled Veterans Business Enterprise (DVBE) and Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Business Enterprise (LGBT) programs for locally funded projects.
Through these diversity programs VTA assists in helping certify businesses seeking public works construction, purchasing and professional services contracts.
VTA is currently, the project sponsor for the Silicon Valley BART Phase II Extension Project, a six-mile, four-station extension that will expand BART operations from Berryessa/North San José through downtown San Jose to the City of Santa Clara. The Phase II Project completes the full 16-mile extension from the Warm Springs/South Fremont Station into Santa Clara County, enhancing regional connectivity linking BART with VTA's light rail and bus network, Amtrak, ACE, Caltrain and Capitol Corridor. It will help reduce regional traffic congestion and spur transit-oriented development around stations, providing increased access to jobs, housing, and education.
Bay Area Diversity Business Forums has historically been part of VTA's outreach plan to promote and enhance the success of economically and socially disadvantaged businesses, especially impacted by the pandemic, so that large firms and agencies are able to engage qualified, experienced divers firms on the BART Phase II Extension.
