Glossary

• BizTrak System

BizTrak is an integrated system that automates the purchasing, certification and outreach workflow for each qualifying program.

• Specialty Code

"Specialty Code" (S.C.) are used to note the firm's industry, product, or service provided. Specialty Code are used for all firms.

• N.A.I.C.S. Code

North American Industry Classification System (N.A.I.C.S.) are used to note the firm's industry, product, or service provided. N.A.I.C.S. codes are used for all firms.

• Firm Certification Type

Available search options for Certification Status:

• US Department of Transportation Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)
  The U.S. Department of Transportation designation of a for-profit small business concern that is owned at least 51 percent by a socially and economically disadvantaged individuals(s) and/or a tribally owned concern, and who controls the managerial and day-to-day business operations of the business. Sometimes referred to as "federal certification".
• Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)
  A for-profit small business concern that performs a commercially useful function and is legitimately owned and controlled by one or more minorities who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents, or minority business enterprises certified by EOO in accordance with South Carolina State Regulations.

Note:
Firms which are not certified as a DBE or MBE are classified as "OBE". This term specifically means the firm is not certified. "OBE" is not a type of certification and is only a BizNet designation for non-certified firms.


• Definitions of other specialized terms contained on this website:

• Minority
  An individual who is a member of one of the following ethnic/racial/cultural groups: African/Black American, Hispanic American, Asian American, or Native American or Alaskan Native. See "MBE" above.
• Socially and Economically Disadvantaged
  For purposes of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, certain ethnic, racial or cultural groups are presumed to be socially and economically disadvantaged; i.e., Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans (American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, or Native Hawaiians), Asian Pacific Americans (persons with origins from Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Japan, China, Taiwan, Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Vietnam, Korea, The Philippines, U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Republic of Palau), Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Samoa, Macao, Hong Kong, Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, or Nauru); or Subcontinent Asian Americans (persons with origins from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives Islands or Nepal). However, being born in one of the above country is not, by itself, sufficient for an individual to be considered to be a member of one of these groups. An individual must demonstrate that they identify with these groups either culturally, socially or racially. Individuals who are members of the above groups, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, are presumed to be socially and economically disadvantaged. An individual's group membership is based upon demonstrable evidence that he or she has held himself or herself out to be identified with either culturally, socially and/or racially and is currently identified as such by recognized membership of the group in question.