In this article, we will introduce additional resources that may be useful for residents and entrepreneurs in our state. Here you will find materials and links to explore opportunities for business and cooperative support. Please note: this website is solely an informational resource and is not affiliated with the LCCDC organization.
The Montana Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) helps established businesses compete in government marketplaces.
From a lead center in Billings, Montana and six locations throughout the state, Montana PTACs offer services that guide small businesses through federal, state and local contracting processes. The centers’ services are offered at little or no charge.
Montana PTAC Services at Lake County Community Development:
PTACs provide individual counseling, procurement information and other resources that can help small businesses:
- determine contracting potential;
- complete necessary registrations and certification;
- locate contracting opportunities;
- review and complete bid packages.
In addition, Montana PTAC works directly with government procurement personnel by connecting them with responsive, qualified suppliers of goods and services.
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)
LCCDC is working with the State of Montana Department of Transportation to help disadvantaged firms to get Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) certification and to provide business assistance to our DBE Certified firms. This Program is a federal program developed to help small disadvantaged businesses to equally participate in contracting opportunities funded by the US department of Transportation.
Being certified as a DBE firm offers certain benefits:
- Possibility for work on highway projects in Montana
- Receive funds for Training expenses
- Receive One-on-One Technical and Training Assistance
- Receive Contracting Opportunity Announcements
- Listing in DBE Directory on MDT’s web site
- Receive Consultant Assistance
- Free Attendance DBE Workshops
- Assistance with Web site design
Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)
The Western Rural Development Region and its network of relationships in the Flathead Indian Reservation, Lake, Mineral, and Sanders Counties present the following 2012 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) update. In its role as the Certified Regional Development Corporation (CRDC) for the Western Rural Development Region (WRDR), Lake County Community Development Corporation (LCCDC) has organized and created the following information and data. It reflects numerous conversations about the social and economic well-being of the region, and reveals the commitment that its communities have towards creating more jobs, fostering more stable and diversified economies, and improving the living conditions within the region’s business corridor.
Through town hall style meetings, surveys and multiple gatherings with local government entities, civic groups, and individual citizens, this document will help to build an infrastructure that enables direct channels of information and communication with respect to economic development within our region. The region comprising Lake, Mineral, and Sanders Counties presents unique projects and relationships unlike any found within the state of Montana. This CEDS document has been, in part, created to share these conversations taking place in the area.
2018 – 2022 CEDS. Western Rural Development Region, comprising the peoples and communities within the geographic boundaries of Montana’s Lake, Mineral and Sanders Counties.
