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Welcome!

The Palm Beach County Office of Small Business Assistance (OSBA) would like to thank you for visiting our new website. We are in the business of opening doors for Small Businesses throughout the County by constantly working towards increasing the participation of small, minority, and women businesses in the procurement of goods and services.

OSBA staff works in conjunction with Palm Beach County user and purchasing services offices in all phases of the contracting process. This includes activities from pre-solicitation through post-award. Our goal is to assist small businesses with the tools to succeed by providing information resources, enhanced by educational opportunities and technical assistance.

Some of our efforts include outreach to trade associations and industry professionals such as:

• Along with other County divisions and offices, we participate in industry-sponsored conferences and trade shows to share information and educate the public on how to do business with Palm Beach County.
• We periodically sponsor seminars and on-site certification to Small, Minority, and Women Business enterprises.
• We facilitate one-on-one opportunities for individual firms that provide services needed by Palm Beach County.
• We provide financing opportunities via our Palm Beach County Banking Consortium and the U.S. SBA's Business Loan Express program.

We encourage subcontracting with small, minority and women business enterprises as a critical component to the success of this program. It helps us to reach and include more S/M/WBEs in our procurement process. We require our primary contractors to proactively engage S/M/WBEs on all County projects and contracts. In fact, our prime contractors have embraced the SBE program.

Through our website, you will have access to the County's vendor registration and certification processes. Additionally, you have access to our Certified Vendor database. Once you've become a Certified SBE, your company will be included in our on-line database.

Our motto is "Small Business is Big Business" in Palm Beach County. Please take your first step to understanding how to do business in Palm Beach County.

Sincerely,

Hazel L.K. Oxendine
Director

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