What is DBE?

DBE stands for Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. DBE is a Federal initiative to provide opportunities to historically disadvantaged businesses • DBE Certification applies to all Department of Transportation recipients including UTA, UDOT, and Salt Lake Airport.

What are DBE benefits?

• Get an edge in bidding for projects
• Infrastructure funding
• Increasing public transit
• Opportunity to participate on federally funded projects
• Access to a complete directory of certified DBEs for the entire state
• Firms’ information is available to all agencies across the state

How do I qualify?

• Company must be at least 51% owned by one or more people that are socially and economically disadvantaged
• Must be a small business per SBA guidelines
• A firm’s three-year average of annual gross receipts, may not exceed $28.48 million
• Personal Net Worth cannot exceed $1.32 million
• For-profit business

How do I apply?

• Download the UUACP Application and Mail to UTA
  
  Utah businesses:
  Download UUCP Application and Personal Net Worth
  
  Non-Utah businesses:
  Download UUCP Application, Personal Net Worth and UUCP Interstate Application.
  Mail it to:
  Kenya Fair,
  UUCP Certifying Officer
  Utah Transit Authority
  669 West 200 South
  Salt Lake City, UT 84101
  
  or



• Contact UTA for an Application Copy
  Contact Us for a copy of the application and/or with questions.

What other resources does DBE offer?

• Download the DBE Directory.

UUCP Application

Click Here to download the application.

What companies are currently participating?

Fyve Star	TMM Enterprises

LS Gallegos	Mori Consulting