Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) Program

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The purpose of the HUBZone program is to provide federal contracting assistance for qualified small business concern located in historically underutilized business zones to:

• Increase employment opportunities
• Stimulate capital investment in those areas
• Empower communities through economic leveraging and reinvestment within the community of wages and taxes

To be a qualified HUBZone small business concern a company must:

• be a small business
• be owned and controlled only by US citizens
• have the "principle office" located in a HUBZone
• have at least 35% of the company's employees residing in a HUBZone (doesn't have to be the same HUBZone as the company's principal office)
• be certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration

For additional information:

• Small Business Administration's HUBZone