Hands-on Workshop Helps You Certify Your Business to Become Either Small, Women or Minority Certified with Virginia

Are you a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business who wants to do business with the Commonwealth of Virginia?

Small business owners who are looking to participate in Virginia?s specialized procurement and contracting opportunities are encouraged to become SWaM certified. The SWaM certification is a vehicle to promote economic growth of Virginia?s businesses.  In this workshop, you will apply for the SWaM certification program. You must have all your supporting documents ready and available on a flash drive or on your computer/laptop to participate in the lab.

Link to the list of supporting documents: https://www.sbsd.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/SWaM-Documents-Required2018.pdf

In order to participate in the SWaM certification lab, participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to this workshop.

Please note: This workshop is for businesses not yet SWaM certified and have not already applied for their SWaM certification.

Prerequisite: Should have attended the March 4th class "Selling to the Commonwealth" 
More information and to register :
https://viennabusiness.org/events/details/selling-to-the-commonwealth-workshop-presented-by-virginia-department-of-small-business-and-supplier-diversity-12081?calendarMonth=2020-03-01

If you have any questions regarding this workshop, please contact Chris Ley at chris.ley@sbsd.virginia.gov.