Seattle City Light welcomes the opportunity to work with all businesses that embrace our goals and strengthen the communities we serve. Utilizing diverse business is simply good business - adding value to our customers, our services and our utility.

The Women and Minority-owned Business Enterprise Program Office seeks to:

● Encourage businesses to register their business using the
   Online Business Directory
● Encourage women and minority owned businesses
    to bid on blanket contracts, consultant Request For Proposals
    (RFPs), and public works solicitations
● Share information regarding City Light's procurement policies and
   procedures
● Create increased awareness and promote the inclusion of women
    and minority-owned firms in City Light's day-to-day procurement
    opportunities
● Ensure that City Light units make a good faith effort to utilize women
    and minority-owned firms
● Ensure prime contractors on City Light projects provide subcontracting
    opportunities to women and minority-owned businesses
    through use of the City's Inclusion Plan
● Assist City Light in achieving an aspirational goal of 13%
    for combined consulting and purchasing expenditures with WMBE
    firms in 2019. View the 2018 report here.