Just weeks afterwards Graduate Virtual Assistant Becky Gregory of Baltimore, advised closing down shop, she accustomed the best encouragement, she could imagine: official accompaniment and city-limits acceptance as a Minority/Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Meaning, Gregory’s business Virtual Administrative Services (http://www.virtualadminservices.com) is now certified on a bounded and accompaniment akin to attempt for government contracts.
Plus, her firm’s name and the areas in which the aggregation is certified will be listed in the MDOT Minority Business Enterprise/Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Directory, a agenda acclimated by prime contractors and consultants who ambition to do business with boyhood subcontractors.
The accomplished action took about 6 months to complete from if Gregory submitted paperwork on May 8, 2008, but Gregory believes it is able-bodied account it because these boxy bread-and-butter times. “This is absolutely a blow of abatement for me. I accept this bifold certification, gives my business angary and believability in the beyond exchange and represents a absolute befalling for business advance and expansion.” Gregory explains.
Gregory accustomed city-limits acceptance as a Baltimore City Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise (M/WBE) and State Certification as a Minority/Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Maryland’s Minority/Disadvantaged Business Enterprise affairs is run by the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) This acceptance entitles entrepreneurs like Gregory, to do business with the MD Dept of Transportation MBE/DBE based on NAICS Industry Codes: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the accepted acclimated by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical abstracts accompanying to the U.S. business economy.
This blazon of plan is absolutely what Gregory’s business Virtual Administration Services, specializes in. Since 1992 she’s been accomplishing chat processing and desktop publishing projects, for friends, ancestors and anyone who asked. Then in 2004, she took a bound of acceptance and started a academic business geared against acceptable added baby businesses with accurate services. Now just 4 years later, acknowledgment to this certification, Gregory looks advanced to acceptable affairs she most-likely wouldn’t accept been able to attempt for. “This acceptance will acquiesce me to attempt for larger, abiding affairs and will betrayal VAS to a added admirers of abeyant clients” says Gregory.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Overview of MD Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Program and MDOT's Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program http://www.mdot.state.md.us/MBE_Program/overview
For added advice on Virtual Administrative Services appointment www.virtualadminservices.com
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