State and Local Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Certification
The overarching goal of the City of New Orleans' Office of Supplier Diversity (OSD) is to connect small business owners with opportunities to work with the City of New Orleans and other public and private sector entities.
To that end, the City offers a State and Local Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (SLDBE Program). The core mission of the SLDBE Program is to level the playing field for New Orleans-based firms to compete for their fair share of opportunties offered by the City and its agencies. The SLDBE program is a race and gender neutral program which means all business owners who can demonstrate both social and economic disadvantage in their bakcground and/or business experiences, may qualify for certification.
Certification through the SLDBE Program provides a business greater access to contracting opportunities with the City of New Orleans, the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans and the New Orleans (Armstrong)InternationalAirport*.
WHERE TO BEGIN- Getting Your Business SLDBE Certified:
NOTE: All of the forms are in PDF Format. You will need Adobe Reader to open them. You may download a free copy of Adobe Reader at www.adobe.com.
The forms are also PDF-Fillable, which means you may fill them in on your computer and save your application on your computer (with the proper version of Adobe).
Below is a list of all of the new SLDBE Certification application documents.
* SLDBE Certification only qualifies your firm for non-Federally-funded contracts at the New Orleans (Armstrong International) Airport. See the Louisiana Unified Certification page on this website for more information.
