On August 20, 2015 a host of small-minority and women-owned businesses converged on the FCC for its 4th Annual Supplier Diversity Conference and Workshop. The FCC’s Office of Communications Business Opportunities (OCBO) hosted the event which focused on private sector business opportunities for small-minority and women-owned businesses. OCBO invited representatives from private industry, specifically telecommunications and technology firms from across the country, to discuss their organizations’ contracting procedures and to provide insight on how small businesses should navigate the procurement process.
Procurement and diversity executives from Cox Communications, Frontier Communications, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and Microsoft, as well as some of the more successful suppliers to these companies like A Unity System, The IT Architect, gathered to discuss how small businesses can distinguish themselves in the market for lucrative opportunities.
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