Greater Boston Bookkeeping and Financial Services Receives State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (SOMWBA) Certification

SOMWBA certification expands the market opportunities of minority and woman-owned business enterprises.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded Greater Boston Bookkeeping and Financial Services with SOMWBA certification, verifying the firm's eligibility to participate in the state's affirmative purchasing programs for minority and women businesses as outlined in Executive Order 390, and Massachusetts General Law Chapter 7, Section 40N.

SOMWBA provides several benefits to Massachusetts businesses. Clients looking to work with women and minority-owned businesses can easily search a public database at the SOMWBA website. More than $240 million of the $4 billion the Commonwealth of Massachusetts spends on firms is targeted to SOMWBA certified minority and women businesses. In addition, SOMWBA also assists government agencies in meeting their affirmative purchasing and contracting goals.

On the SOMWBA website, former Massachusetts Governor Argeo Paul Cellucci says "Minority-and women-owned business provide ever-increasing value to our state's economy...By facilitating easier access to the various phases of state purchasing and contracting, SOMWBA is providing a valuable jumpstart to many of these businesses which make up our state's fastest-growing business sector."

Comments

[Andrea Harris]

Congratulations, Laura!

[Laura Glennon]

Thank you, Andrea. Ever since we were awarded this certification from the Commonwealth, new opportunities have knocked on our door. Even on the supply side of the business, we are finding and being found by sister companies of SOMBWA. We are so pleased to be a Women Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) SOMBWA company.

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