Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (BAO)

Welcome to Metro Nashville's Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (Business Assistance [BAO]) Website. Metro Government is committed to assisting in the development of Minority and Small Businesses in Davidson County. We believe that the role of small and minority businesses is very important to the Nashville Community and have developed this site as a resource to small and minority businesses. Included are points of interest and resources, notices regarding procurement opportunities, and other useful website links. We hope you will find this site useful and of value to your business.

BUSINESS NEWS!!!

Metro’s Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance announces is Training Calendar for FY13. Check out the BAO FY13 Training Calendar and register today! RSVP for courses at 615-880-2814 or at bao@nashville.gov.

Metro Nashville went live with iProcurement May 14!! Please note that if you were previously registered in SMARTrac, your information should have converted over to our new system, and you should have received login instructions. If you experience any problems logging in, please email the iSupplier mailbox at iSupplier@nashville.gov

As Metro changes over to iProcurement, our suppliers will follow and see a variety of upgrades. Some of the highlights are:

• Your information will migrate over but for your firm’s security, we will send you a temporary password somewhere around May 14th. You will be asked to change it so, no one can see or alter your data.
• There is no need to re-register but it would be a good time to review your business profile.
• Your business profile, will now allow multiple contacts. So, when a procurement is issued, multiple folks can be made aware of the opportunities.
• All solicitations will be issued and received online! This eliminates the costly investment in proposal documents, mad rushes through Nashville traffic to ensure timely submissions of offers, or the need to be present for bid openings. Everything can be seen online.
• Questions, discussions and solicitation amendments will take place online. The same is true for awards and resulting contracts.
• All subcontracting will be reported online but this requires that your subcontractors be registered before solicitation submissions. Encourage them to do so now!
• Subcontractor payment reporting will also take place online and the Business Assistance Office will be monitoring this activity.
• Fewer forms and more consolidated reporting requirements will be in place.

Our goal is to provide our suppliers a one-stop destination for doing business with Metro Nashville. It is also to be transparent to the public as we conduct business. More information will be provided and an online tutorial (UPK) will walk you through the new opportunities. We trust you will like the improvements – be patient as we work through the roll out.