THE COTNEY BRIEF | Construction Law Simplified October 2025

  State and Federal Regulatory Changes New DOT Rule Rewrites DBE Certification Standards for Contractors DOT issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that took effect Oct. 3, 2025. It removes the race/sex presumptions from DBE/ACDBE eligibility and orders immediate transitions: Unified Certification Programs must reevaluate all current DBEs/ACDBEs, and, until that reevaluation is done, recipients…

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