Doing Business With DFW International Airport: Creating and Sustaining a Diverse Business Environment

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport creates and sustains a business environment that enables disadvantaged, minority, and women-owned business enterprises (D/M/WBE) to compete equitably for business opportunities and achieve economic success, contributing to DFW’s overall mission of expanding economic benefits.

Their Process

1. A three-fold purpose:

• To ensure increased availability of disadvantaged, minority, and women-owned business enterprises;
• To ensure the integrity of the D/M/WBE Programs and that the business process is implemented for its intended purposes; and,
• To ensure the integrity of the D/M/WBE firms participating in Airport procurements, as well as other diversity and inclusion initiatives offered by the Airport.

2. In order to count the participation of D/M/WBE firms towards a contract goal, the D/M/WBE must be certified by one of the approved certification agencies noted below:

• North Central Texas Regional Certification Agency (NCTRCA)
• Dallas Fort Worth Minority Supplier Development Council (DFWMSDC)
• Women’s Business Council Southwest (WBCS)
• TX DOT (DBE/ACDBE Directory)

3. Bidders/Proposers must submit Certification Certificates for all D/M/WBEs proposed to be utilized to meet the contract goal at the time of bid/proposal submission. If a firm is not certified by an approved certification agency at the time of bid/proposal submission, DFW will not count the participation towards the contract goal.

4. Bidders and proposers must use all available D/M/WBE Directories to assist them in locating D/M/WBEs for the work required on the contract. The DFW Airport’s D/M/WBE Directory is available online as one of the various resources.

5. A D/M/WBE certification does not constitute a representation or warranty as to the qualifications or capabilities of any certified firm.

6. As of 6/1/20, in addition to having a valid certification from one of the entities listed above, MBEs and WBEs must have a place of business in the Airport’s market area at the time the firm is submitted for credit towards meeting a contract goal. The Airport’s market area is defined as Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, and Denton counties. Documentation establishing a firm’s place of business must be provided upon request.

For more information, please visit www.dfwairport.com.

Source: Dallas Fort Worth International Airport