North Texas Business Review is a trade publication. It reports on how public agencies and large corporate buyers across Texas and the Southwest decide what to buy, who they are permitted to buy it from, and what a supplier needs in place before any of that becomes relevant. It is written for the owner of a small or mid-sized firm working out why a door has not opened, and for the supplier diversity staff inside buying organizations who field that question all day.
What it covers
Six sections, running in the order the qualifying sequence itself runs: how a buying organization is put together and who inside it actually decides; the size and ownership tests that determine what a firm counts as; the certification routes and the bodies that issue them; where public and corporate work is advertised and on what schedule; the directories and assistance offices worth knowing about; and a dated record of what changed and when this publication last looked. Texas rewrote a substantial part of that this year, and guidance written before the rewrite now sends suppliers to an office that can no longer help them.
What it will not do
It will not tell you whether your firm qualifies for anything. It reads the same public criteria you can read, and the only answer that carries weight comes from the body that issues the certificate, on the documents you file with it. It does not review applications, prepare them or file them. It does not introduce a supplier to a buyer. It does not rank the programs it describes or name a best one, because the route that fits depends on who you are trying to sell to, and this publication has no way of knowing that. Where a question belongs to an agency or a council, the page names that body and links to it.
How it is paid for
Nothing on this site is for sale. There is no advertising, no sponsored placement, no listing anyone can buy a way into, and no fee taken from any organization named on these pages. Nobody described here paid to be described. Nobody was shown a page before it was published or invited to approve one afterward. That absence is the substance of what an independent publication offers, and it is what makes a flat sentence possible when a route has closed or a program no longer does what its own marketing says. The standard every figure on these pages has to clear is set out in a short account of how the sourcing rule works.
This domain
This domain previously belonged to USPAACC Southwest, a regional chapter of the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce that ceased operating in 2020. North Texas Business Review is an independent publication with no connection to that organization or to any chamber of commerce.
If you reached this page from a city or county resource list expecting an organization that certifies firms or accepts applications, that organization is not at this address and nothing here can process, endorse or expedite an application. The certifying bodies still operating are named on the comparison of the routes now open, each linked to the page it maintains itself. Their answer is the binding one. If something on this site is wrong, the editorial desk reads corrections and states what changed.