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Small-business owner credits SDO certification with landing contract work
Summary
A small-business owner who identified his company as Prairie and Sons said SDO certification opened opportunities on a construction project that required a percentage of minority contractors. He urged other minority-owned firms to pursue certification and emphasized quality and community hiring.
Commenter, a small-business owner who identified his firm as Prairie and Sons, said SDO certification helped him win work on a local construction project during the meeting's public-comment period. "This building here, they had to have a percentage of minority companies. I got hired through the painting contractor who's doing this," he said (00:23).
He told the meeting that after his previous employer slowed work in 2022 he started smaller exterior-painting projects and gradually took on…
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