Vendors apply to the Office of Supplier Diversity to be Certified for the Small Business Focus (SBF) Program. This is a dataset of businesses who have been certified for the SBF Program. State Agencies are encouraged to purchase from small business vendors who are certified. Goals of the SBF Program are to 1) increase access to opportunities for small businesses to participate in state procurement; 2) create a program for small businesses of a certain size; 3) certify those uniquely sized businesses enterprises; 4) create a Directory of these uniquely sized small businesses (it is located at:
http://directory.osd.gss.omb.delaware.gov/index.shtml ); 5) encourage revising agency Supplier Diversity Plans to access the Small Business Focus Program Directory when making under threshold procurements; and 6) measuring, analyzing, and reporting on spend for current and future procurements with uniquely sized small businesses in the Small Business Focus Program.