MTA Small Business Mentoring Program

The MTA seeks to increase, facilitate, and encourage the participation of small businesses, including Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (M/W/BEs) by providing a supportive framework for eligible firms to develop and grow within the construction industry and to establish stable, long-term business relationships with the MTA.

For non-federally funded projects, Small Business Mentoring Program (SBMP) has two tiers: Mentor (Tier 1) and Graduate Mentor (Tier 2).

Tier 1 Mentoring Program

The SBMP-Tier 1 partners emerging firms with one of the industry's largest construction management/mentoring firms-TDX Construction. The SBMP-Tier 1 provides:

Pre-qualification
Training
General business, organizational and professional skills development
Construction expertise
Access to working capital
Experience working with MTA construction projects ($25,000 to $1,000,000)
Fast-track payments

How to qualify for SBMP-Tier 1

The SBMP-Tier 1 is targeted to small contractors. To participate, your firm must:

Have gross sales no greater than $3 million per year averaged over the last three calendar years.
Have a bonding capacity no greater than $2 million.
Be pre-qualified to do business with the MTA.
Provide at least two references for commercial work – valued at no less than $25,000 each – in every trade for which you wish to be qualified.
Have been in business for at least one year.

How firms get work

Once you have received your pre-qualification approval letters, you are eligible for participation in the program. You will be invited to attend an assessment session at which your company's strengths and weaknesses will be identified to customize an improvement plan. Opportunities for bidding on MTA work will be dependent upon the availability of work in the trades for which you qualify.