Contacts to Contracts

Connecting businesses for growth

In recognition of the significant economic impact of small businesses and to assist its larger corporate members, the Columbus Chamber has developed the Contacts to Contracts program to address a key to success for small businesses - market access.

Contacts to Contracts identifies contract opportunities that are available from the region's larger corporations and promotes this information to appropriate Chamber members that are small and entrepreneurial growth companies.

This initiative places a strong emphasis on contracts that are currently being sent outside of the Columbus Region. The overall goal is  to help larger companies identify qualified local vendors and bring those dollars back to the Columbus Region.

The Chamber has developed a database and a strategy for co-hosted vendor/buyer meetings to facilitate matching of available contract opportunities with the appropriate small businesses. Contacts to Contracts will soon have a special directory section on this site.