The Civil Rights Office is responsible for the Department's Equal Employment Opportunity program and the Department of Transportation minority business enterprise program. The objective of the minority business enterprise program is to certify those businesses that meet all the eligibility requirements have opportunities to have bids awarded to them. Another objective of the minority business enterprise program is to encourage minority firms to bid on State and federal highway construction projects. This program is a required in order to utilize Federal Funds.
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.