BENEFITS

Benefits of registering and receiving certification:

• Official recognition of your Women- or Minority-owned business enterprise (WMBE) status
• Promotion and visibility to the CPUC and sixteen major utilities
• Involvement frequent marketing and bid announcement events
• Faster contracting processes

Suppliers certified by the Clearinghouse are officially recognized by the CPUC and sixteen participating utilities which service the California market. Certification by the Clearinghouse of eligible suppliers was designed to encourage, recruit, and utilize WMBEs by participating utilities.

Via this registration and certification process and numerous marketing activities, events and bid announcements, participating utilities are informed and actively select from a certified suppliers list to meet procurement goals of 5% for women and 15% for minorities which were initially established under California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued General Order 156 (GO 156), and later expanded to include a goal of 1.5% for service-disabled veterans.

By participating your company is identified as an eligible, certified supplier in a centralized database used by many utilities to search for suppliers and when matched with a purchasing requirement, your certification speeds the contracting process.

Thank you for participating.