About

 

The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is the only federal agency created specifically to foster the establishment and growth of socially or economically disadvantaged businesses in America.

The Denver MBDA Business Center provides strategic business consulting services to socially or economically disadvantaged businesses with $500,000 or more in annual revenue. We help those businesses secure opportunities and access to resources, generate employment, promote long-term economic growth and stimulate expansion.

We assist in the areas of:

  • Financing

  • Planning

  • Management

  • Marketing

  • Government and corporate contracting opportunities

We target:

  • Federal agencies

  • State agencies

  • Department of Defense

 

OUR MISSION

is to grow socially or economically disadvantaged businesses so that they can prosper through their own financial and economic might.

OUR VISION

is to help socially or economically disadvantaged businesses grow through economic development.

OUR STRATEGY

is to help socially or economically disadvantaged businesses grow through state and federal contracting.
 

Denver MBDA Team

  • Director

    Andra Hargrave is the director of the Denver MBDA Business Center.

    Hargrave has more than 15 years of direct national and international sales channel development in the areas of government procurement and Fortune 500 level business development. His marketing channel development experience lies in a variety of industries, including technology-oriented manufacturing, service industries and distribution. Hargrave possesses an in-depth knowledge of state and federal set-aside procurement programs, such as SDB, HUB and the 8a Business Development Program, among others. He has served as the director of certification for the RMMSDC and currently serves as the statewide veteran’s consultant for the Colorado SBDC Network. His comprehension of federally-backed procurements, grants and certification programs, such as advanced technology and SBIR/STTR, is without equal.

 

The Denver MBDA Business Center is a federally-funded program of the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) and U.S. Department of Commerce. It is locally-operated by the Minority Plains Minority Supplier Development Council (MPMSDC).