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North Texas Business ReviewSOUTHWESTPROCUREMENT REVIEW

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This publication is new and holds no events, so there is little here and no reason to pretend otherwise. What follows is a short editorial record: dated notes on changes to the rules set out across the sections this site is divided into, and on what could and could not be verified while writing about them. Below the notes, kept separate, sit two pages preserved from the organization that used to publish at this address.

Notes

  1. What could not be read

    Every figure on this site was read from the administering body's own current page on this date. Several pages would not open, and three of those absences shape what this publication is able to say. The Texas statutes site serves its text through JavaScript and returned only navigation, so this publication states no dollar level at which a state agency must advertise a purchase, including on the page about where notices are posted. The Women's Business Council Southwest site refused every request, so everything recorded here about that council comes from the national council's own page for it. The Comptroller's Texas SmartBuy program page returns a not-found error, so no definition of that system is quoted. Where a source could not be read, the page names the authority and states no number.

  2. A card surcharge lands on certification applications

    From this date the Women's Business Enterprise National Council applies a 3 percent credit card processing fee to every application submitted by credit card. It is a small sum beside the application fee itself, which runs from $350 for a firm under $1 million of revenue to $1,250 at $50 million and above, and it is the kind of change that quietly dates every guide describing what certification costs. The current bands sit beside the other routes on the comparison of what each route asks.

  3. Ten regional certifying agreements expire

    The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts announced that its memoranda of agreement with ten regional organizations had expired, following 60-day notices issued the previous December. Those organizations previously certified businesses for the state program and no longer do so, and the agency now handles certification directly. The Dallas Fort Worth Minority Supplier Development Council and the Women's Business Council Southwest are two of the ten, and both still certify under their own national programs, so a certificate either one issued is still a live credential. What changed for it is what the State of Texas recognizes, which is worth establishing before relying on it in a bid. Nothing is claimed here about the other eight.

Not this publication's work

Archive

The two pages below were published at this address by the organization that occupied this domain before North Texas Business Review did. They are kept at their original URLs because other sites still link to them, and a preserved record is more useful than an error page. Neither was written here, neither describes anything current, and neither is an offer, an event or a service. An account of what previously occupied this domain, and of the fact that this publication has no connection to it, is set out on the page describing what this publication is.

Sources

  1. Women's Business Enterprise National Council, certificationConsulted 13 August 2026
  2. Women's Business Enterprise National Council, certification FAQsConsulted 13 August 2026
  3. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, regional agreements expireConsulted 13 August 2026
  4. Texas Government Code, Chapter 2155, state purchasingConsulted 13 August 2026