City of Boston Department of Supplier and Workforce Diversity & the Mayor's Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion
The City of Boston mission is to create equal opportunities for businesses of all kinds in Boston. After your business is certified with them, they will include you in any outreach efforts they make for City projects. They can also connect you to resources offered inside and outside of the City.
WBE’s certified by CWE can now access a streamlined application with the City of Boston’s Supplier Diversity Program.
The Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) and the City of Boston Department of Supplier and Workforce Diversity & the Mayor's Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion have partnered so that WBE's certified by CWE can now access a streamlined application with the City of Boston’s Supplier Diversity Program. This agreement allows the City of Boston to recognize and accept CWE’s 3rd party WBE certification, which reduces the administrative burden of certification for small and women-owned businesses while increasing the pool of available diverse vendors for municipal procurement opportunities.
CWE-certified businesses can use this link to start a new cross-certification application. On the second page of the application, there is an opportunity for that applicant to indicate:
which certification they are applying for and
whether they have any third-party certifications. CWE-certified businesses should select
WBE as their desired certification type and then
select CWE as their third-party certifying authority