VIDEO RELEASE: ICYMI – California High-Speed Rail Highlights Recent Small Business Diversity & Resources Fair

Annual event provides opportunities for face-to-face networking, meetings with prime contractors

November 27, 2024

캘리포니아주 머세드 – In a spirit of gratitude, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) shares heartfelt thanks to all the small businesses collaborating, and seeking to collaborate, with this transformative project.

In case you missed it, on October 23 more than 200 small business entrepreneurs attended the Authority’s Diversity and Resources Fair held at UC Merced. At the event representatives of these small businesses met with more than 30 prime contractors to seek opportunities to work at the nation’s first 220 mph high-speed rail project.

Open the above image to watch the Small Business Fair video.

“We received great feedback from small businesses, who said they appreciated the opportunity to meet directly with the primes’ hiring managers and that they made meaningful business connections.”

– Chardená Valley, Authority Small Business Advocate

The Authority is thankful for small businesses throughout California and works with 860 certified small businesses statewide. Some of the Authority’s small business team accomplishments in 2024 include:

• Hosting the Authority’s Meet the Prime virtual workshop series, providing small businesses with opportunities to elevate their business and network with primes who have been awarded Authority contracts.
• Partnering with the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) at SFO’s first-ever Resource Fair on February 27.
• Hosting the Authority’s Small Business Program table at “A Day in Her Shoes” event on March 7 that celebrated women in business.
• Partnering with the Capital Black Chamber of Commerce.
• Attending the Pathways to Progress Summit and Vendor Fair in Sacramento on April 25.

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The Authority’s small business team will host its third Annual Small Business Diversity and Resources Fair in the Bay Area in the fall of 2025.

The Authority has begun work to extend the 119 miles currently under construction to 171 miles of future electrified high-speed rail from Merced to Bakersfield. The Authority also has full environmental clearance on 463 miles of the high-speed rail program from the Bay Area to downtown Los Angeles.

고속철도 건설이 시작된 이래로 이 프로젝트는 14,000개 이상의 건설 일자리를 창출했으며, 대부분은 센트럴 밸리 주민들에게 돌아갔습니다. 건설에 대한 자세한 내용은 다음을 방문하세요. www.buildhsr.com

당국의 중소기업 프로그램에 대해 자세히 알아보려면 다음을 방문하세요. https://hsr.ca.gov/business-opportunities/small-business-program/

Small Business Newsletter를 구독하여 최신 소식을 받아보세요. https://hsr.ca.gov/business-opportunities/small-business-program/small-business-newsletter/

다음 링크에는 최근 비디오, 애니메이션, 사진, 프레스 센터 리소스 및 최신 렌더링이 포함되어 있습니다. https://hsra.app.box.com/s/vyvjv9hckwl1dk603ju15u07fdfir2q8

이 파일은 모두 캘리포니아 고속철도국(California High-Speed Rail Authority)에서 무료로 사용할 수 있습니다.