\u200bIn 2004, the state of Maryland\u00a0created the Small Business Reserve (SBR) Program, providing small businesses with the opportunity to participate as prime contractors by establishing a unique marketplace where small businesses compete against other small businesses instead of larger, more established, companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under state procurement law, the SBR Program directs participating agencies\/departments to spend at least 15% of its fiscal year procurement expenditures with qualified small businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More information about the Small Business Reserve Program can be found at https:\/\/gomdsmallbiz.maryland.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The University of Maryland Eastern Shore supports the Small Business Reserve Program and encourages all faculty and staff to utilize small, minority, and disadvantaged vendors when making purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A list of frequently used certified small businesses is available on this website. Other certified small businesses may be found at https:\/\/emma.maryland.gov<\/a> – click on vendor search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u200bIn 2004, the state of Maryland\u00a0created the Small Business Reserve (SBR) Program, providing small businesses with the opportunity to participate as prime contractors by establishing a unique marketplace where small businesses compete against other small businesses instead of larger, more established, companies.\u00a0 Under state procurement law, the SBR Program directs participating agencies\/departments to spend at…Read more Small Business Reserve Program<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-1360","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/procurement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/procurement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/procurement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/procurement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/procurement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/procurement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/procurement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/procurement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}