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Certified Business Enterprise Viewer

Quick Reference Guide

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Introduction

The Certified Business Enterprise Viewer provides an online,

searchable tool to locate and view information about Disadvantaged

Business Enterprises (DBEs), Minority-owned Business Enterprises

(MBEs), and Women-owned Business Enterprises (WBEs) certified to

do business in New York State.

It is a map-centric way to interact with the same data from the NYS

M/WBE Directory of Certified Firms and the UCP DBE Directory.

Users can easily filter by data attributes such as commodity code, key

word, and more. Users can also drop a pin, or draw a line or area of

interest on a map to help identify certified business enterprises within

a given distance to a project being let.

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Source Data

The Certified Business Enterprise Viewer uses data that is believed to be

authoritative. However, data collection/QA occurs outside of NYSDOT and

some issues such as PO Box Numbers recorded in Physical Street Address

fields are known to exist. Simple data issues like street address errors can

potentially cause inaccurate results to be generated in the app.

The Viewer is designed to maximize visibility of certified business enterprises

when dealing with address/geo-coding issues, and will display prospective

DBE/MBE/WBE vendors matched at the County level, even if an exact physical

address cannot be geo-coded.

Users should use data from the Viewer in the same manner as they would data

from the Directory and validate prospective enterprises in accordance with

established DBE/MBE/WBE utilization best practices. Data in the Viewer is

currently synced with the source directory on a weekly basis.

Certified Business Enterprise owners who discover errors with their Directory

listing should contact [INSERT OCR EMAIL LINK HERE]

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Tips & Tricks for Using Certified Business Enterprise Viewer

The Certified Business Enterprise Viewer is designed to support multiple

workflows normally engaged for DBE/MBE/WBE utilization efforts.

In some instances, starting a search by Certification Type, then narrowing it by

Commodity Code/Keyword, and then by Location may be most useful.

In other cases, starting a search by Location, and then narrowing it by

Certification Type and/or Commodity Code/Key Word might work best.

Try multiple methods to see what works best for you and the utilization

goal you are trying to achieve.

In most cases, once you have completed your search(es) for prospective

Certified Business Enterprises for a project, you will want to export the data to

a spreadsheet (Export to CSV) so you can annotate it and record your

outreach activities/results. Users can export data to a CSV from

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Default View

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Filter – Certification Type – MBE

Filter

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Filter – Commodity Code – “Trucking”

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Filters – “98815 Fence Installation, Maintenance & Repair”

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Filters – Engineering Consultants

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Filter – County & State – NY

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Filter – County & State – Albany & Schenectady

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Filter – DOT Region – Albany

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“Near Me” WidgetAddress or Pin

Locate

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“Find” Widget – Spatial Filter – Line

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“Find” Widget – Spatial Filter – Extent

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“Find” Widget – Spatial Filter – Polygon

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“Find” Widget – Spatial Filter – Point

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“Find” Widget – Apply

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Export – Data “Find” Widget

Export

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Export Data – Attribute Table

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Data – Raw CSV File

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Data – Verify the work

Review Commodity Codes

Make sure the firms perform the desired work

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Name

Address Phone email

BEST PRACTICE – Document Search Parameters

Data – “Final” data … ready to solicit

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AAP10 Solicitation Log

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Base Map Gallery - Streets

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Legend

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Layer List