The Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report is now available!

Certification Highlights:

• Waived certification fees eliminating costs to small and diverse businesses.
• Launched Public Works Small Business Enterprise (PWSBE) State Certification.
• 3,986 businesses were certified with OMWBE at the end of FY 2024.
• 3,390 businesses held OMWBE State Certification, and 1,598 businesses held OMWBE Federal Certification. Businesses can be dual-certified.
• 225 businesses held 307 loans in the Linked Deposit Program at the end of FY 2024 worth a combined total value of $113,221,867.
• Certification analysts supported small and diverse businesses by responding to 5,158 certification related questions.

Supplier Diversity Highlights:

• Established Business Diversity Spending Goals for state agencies, for the first time in over 25 years.
• Washington State spent $308,203,351 with OMWBE Certified Businesses, representing 3.76% of eligible state spending, up 0.55% from FY 2023.
• State Agencies achieved 5.20% certified business utilization.
• Institutions of higher education achieved 1.20% utilization.

Read our FY 2024 Annual Report

View previous annual reports:

• Fiscal Year 2023
• Fiscal Year 2022
• Fiscal Year 2021
• Fiscal Year 2020
• Fiscal Year 2019
• Fiscal Year 2018
• Fiscal Year 2017