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Prime Partner Program

Your qualified pipeline of Hispanic-owned and other small business suppliers for the Bay Area

Your Bay Area contracts carry small-business and DBE participation targets, and your teams need qualified subcontractors on short notice. Finding, vetting and documenting those suppliers is work your liaison office does on top of everything else. We do it as a service.

What "contractor-ready" means
✓Active SAM registration
✓Current certifications
✓Capability statement on file
✓Insurance and bonding confirmed
✓Trained on federal and state bidding
✓Works in English and Spanish
Where we concentrate

The trades your Bay Area projects need.

Facilities and site services
Construction trades
Professional and IT services
Ship repair and logistics
Food and agriculture supply
Buyers our members already serve

The chamber maintains the region's only curated pipeline of Hispanic-owned and other small firms that are contractor-ready, and we publish live opportunity, forecast and award data to our members every week.

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Available as an annual sponsorship or as a purchase order for supplier development and outreach services (NAICS 541611). SFBAYHCC is a California corporation and a registered federal vendor.
What Prime Partners receive

Six deliverables your liaison office would otherwise build.

Qualified Source List
Vetted firms by NAICS and certification (SB, SDB, 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, SDVOSB, CA SB/Micro, DBE, LBE), with SAM status, capability statement, bonding and insurance confirmed. Refreshed quarterly; on request within 48 hours for a live bid.
Opportunity Notifications
You send us your subcontracting opportunity; we push it to matching members in English and Spanish and return a response log.
Showcase Events
Two partner events per year (industry day, trade showcase or one-on-one matchmaking) plus priority placement at chamber events.
Supplier Readiness Nominations
Nominate firms you want to work with into our 90-day Contractor-Ready track.
Quarterly Utilization and Outreach Summary
A formatted report for your small-business liaison or DBE office: firms contacted, introduced, quoted, awarded. By category and project.
Market Intelligence
Quarterly Bay Area briefing: upcoming solicitations and forecasts in your trades, recompetes, and where small and Hispanic-owned firms are winning.
Partnership levels

Three levels of involvement.

Deliverable
Community Partner
Prime Partner
Strategic Partner
Qualified Source List
Annual
Quarterly and on request
Quarterly with a dedicated liaison
Opportunity Notifications
4 per year
Unlimited
Unlimited, with response logs
Events
Member rate
2 partner events
2 events plus a custom industry day
Readiness Nominations
–
3 firms per year
10 firms per year
Utilization and Outreach Summary
–
Quarterly
Quarterly, project level
Market Intelligence
–
Quarterly
Quarterly plus ad hoc queries
How it starts

Live in two weeks.

A 45-minute intake with your small-business liaison or project team. Within two weeks you receive your first Qualified Source List and the notification workflow is live.

We do not guarantee awards, and we do not represent any individual member in a bid to a partner.

Contact
Evodio Walle
San Francisco Bay Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce