Growing a Business
A KEY ROLE IN HELPING
FAMILIES BUY THEIR FIRST
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rectly to business owners to help
them make better business deci
sions based on competitive research
analysis.
The SizeUp tool provides data
analysis in three key ways:
Benchmarking an existing busi
ness to see how it sizes up by com
paring performance to all other com
petitors in the same industry;
A mapping feature to see where
customers and suppliers are lo
cated; and
Finding the best places to adver
tise by choosing from pre-set reports
to find areas with the highest indus
try revenue and the most underserved
markets. Custom demographic re
ports can also be created.
GIS Planning, Inc., the company
that created SizeUp, has licensed
the tool to SBA for one year. SBA’s
acceptance of this product is not an
endorsement of the opinions, prod
ucts or services of GIS Planning,
Inc.
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Minority Contracting
Goals are Increased:
For Oregon
transportation
department jobs
OUR MINORITY-OWNED
BUSINESS PARTNERS PLAY
Website tool
helps with
market research
Small business owners and start
ups across the country can now
take advantage of a new business
tool to help them compete and grow.
The free tool, called SizeUp, helps
businesses identify new customers
and compare their performance
against other businesses in their
industry with data collected from
hundreds of private and public
sources. The toll can be found on
the Small Business Administration
website at sba.gov/sizeup.
“Market research and analysis is
critical for the success of any small
business owner or entrepreneur.
Tools like SizeUp deliver data right
to the fingertips of business owners
to help make smart decisions and
have the greatest opportunity to
start, grow, compete and succeed,”
said SB A Administrator Karen Mills.
“In today’s challenging economic
environm ent where small busi
nesses create nearly all net new jobs
in the U.S., help for small businesses
is more important than ever before.”
SizeUp works by analyzing a
business in comparison to other
similar businesses in the same trade
and provides geographic informa
tion on the marketplace, areas rec
ommended for advertising, and pro
spective customers. This useful
tech tool delivers market data di-
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peals case law, departments of trans
portation are allowed to set goals on
contracts only for groups where
disparity has been proven. Studies
conducted in 2007 and 2011 on
ODOT contracting activities found
The Federal Highway Adminis disparities in certain areas, such as
tration has approved a goal to award in awarding construction contracts
more contracts to minority and to African-American owned busi
women-owned businesses through nesses in the Portland area.
the O regon D e p artm en t o f
The studies also found that set
T ransportation's D isadvantaged ting goals helped reduce those dis
Business Enterprises Program.
parities.
The approved overall goal is 16.95
Specifically, disparities were
percent of the contracts for federal found with A frican A m erican-
fiscal year 2013 are made with DBE owned and Subcontinent Asian-
firms, of which 5.45 percent is ex owned DBEs in the area of con
pected to be attained through race- struction contracts, and in all
and gender-conscious means. This DBEs (except those owned by
is an increase over the previous Asian Pacific A m ericans) in the
goal, which was 11.5 percent with a area of architectural and engineer
3 percent race- and gender-con ing contracts.
scious breakout.
A DBE includes small businesses
To meet the race- and gender that are at least 51 percent owned by
conscious portion of the overall goal, minorities: Black Americans, His
ODOT will set DBE goals on select panic Americans, Native Ameri
contracts in the areas of construc cans, Asian-Pacific Americans, Sub-
tion and architectural and engineer c o n tin e n t A sian A m erican s,
ing services.
women, and other individuals on a
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