Urban League
  • Accounting Services

    As part of the OKC Minority Supplier Diversity Program, eligible businesses may receive accounting services. The service will teach eligible businesses how to prepare financial records for submission of bidding documents and prequalification processes. The intent is not to provide general accounting services required by businesses for normal operations (e.g., filing taxes or producing monthly earning statements).

    Consultants will provide accounting assistance services to eligible businesses exclusively for the following purposes:

    • To obtain prequalification status with The City of Oklahoma City’s Public Works Department (See Prequalification Assistance);
    • To prepare and submit competitive responses for Bid Opportunities (See Bid Assistance);
    • To secure bonding or loan products to compete for, obtain, and execute competitive procurement opportunities.

    Accounting assistance services will be performed by CPAs licensed in the State of Oklahoma and who have a thorough understanding of accounting principles, procedures and practices including, but not limited to GAAP and production of financial statements.

    Consultant will be well versed in The City of Oklahoma City Public Works prequalification requirements to ensure financial and accounting statements meet the minimum requirements for successful prequalification. For those submitting to other RFPs, consultants will review financial expectations and requirements provided in the RFP to ensure alignment.

    Request for Qualifications and Application

     

  • Technical Advisory Services

    As part of the Oklahoma City Minority Supplier Diversity Program, the Urban League, in network with REI Oklahoma and the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, is working to assist Oklahoma City minority owned businesses who are recovering and growing from the effects of COVID-19. Eligible businesses will receive assistance in becoming applicants for local, state and federal contracts. The long-term goal of the Minority Supplier Diversity Program is to have a wide network of minority-owned businesses in OKC that are able to meet the requirements of larger contracts. Applicants will receive services to help apply for business certifications, loans, bonding and to prepare financial statements to respond to RFPs and obtain pre-qualification with the government entities like The City of Oklahoma City and State of Oklahoma.

    The intent of program management, financial and procurement assistance is to help minority supplier businesses achieve the goals of the Minority Supplier Diversity Program. Consultants will coordinate assistance services for minority supplier businesses for the following
    purposes:

    Procurement Assistance

    • Identify and apply for small business bonding and contracting opportunities for clients.
    • Provide one-on-one and group assistance with registering with public and private organizations.
    • Provide one-on-one, group assistance and direct business development (case management) to clients.
    • Manage the coordination of multiple suppliers into teams of sub-contractors to compete for public and corporate contracts by dividing total requirements into smaller tasks or quantities that smaller, minority-owned firms can more feasibly accomplish; or facilitating placement of minority-owned businesses as subprime contractors on larger procurement projects.
    • Review clients’ business profiles and makes recommendations necessary to expand current businesses.
    • Ensure clients progress and results are tracked in the agency’s outcomes data management tool.
    • Prepare progress reports written and/or oral, as required.

     

    Financial Advisory Services

    • Identify and apply for small business funding opportunities for clients.
    • Assist with business plan development as it relates to applying for funding.
    • Have knowledge of and various funding streams that clients can apply for.
    • Research, identify and assist minority supplier businesses with applications for small business loans.
    • Assist with all aspects of securing loans, packaging and seeking additional funding options (banks and non-traditional funding sources) for business expansion.
    • Provide one-on-one, group assistance and direct business development (case management) to clients.
    • Ensure clients progress and results are tracked in the agency’s outcomes data management tool.
    • Prepare progress reports written and/or oral, as required.

    Request for Qualifications and Application