Buy American requirements traditionally extend to public works, transportation, and water related infrastructure. The IIJA expends Buy America coverage to other infrastructure projects, including transmission facilities, structures and equipment of electric utilities, broadband infrastructure, and real property and buildings. To read more, please click here.

Less than 10 percent of federal agencies’ total eligible contracting dollars typically go to small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), a category under federal law for which Black-owned, Latino-owned, and other minority-owned businesses are presumed to qualify. Moreover, while women own roughly 20 percent of all small businesses economy-wide, less than 5 percent of federal contracting dollars go to women-owned small businesses. To read more, please click here.