The Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) is committed to the development of small businesses in the airport industry. To accomplish the development of small businesses, the MAC has established and facilitates participation in the MAC Small Business Program.
MAC supports meaningful participation of small businesses certified in Minnesota's Target Group Business (TGB), Economic Disadvantage (ED), and Veteran Owned (VO) program; St Paul's CERT program; or the DBE program.
A business can also be determined by MAC's Civil Rights and Small Business Development Office as either an Emerging Small Business or a Small Business Enterprise.
An Emerging Small Business (Tier 1) is defined as a firm (including affiliates) whose average gross receipts over the firm's previous five fiscal years do not exceed $5 million.
A Small Business Enterprise a firm (including affiliates) whose average gross receipts over the firm's previous five fiscal years do not exceed $10 million.
No owner of a small business can have a personal net worth of more than $2.047 million.
The MAC applies its Small Business program to the procurement of goods or services, construction or professional services. Procurement is defined as expenditures for construction, architecture and engineering, professional services, goods and supplies and other services. At the MAC, Small Businesses must be certified in a program identified above or determined to be a small business by MAC's Civil Rights Office to count toward a Small Business goal.
