# California Agencies Expand Small Contractor Access

Programs at LA Metro and Alameda County offer small and historically underutilized businesses training, bonding assistance, and pathways into California infrastructure procurement. These supports address barriers that can keep contractors from competing directly as prime contractors, including bonding capacity, financing, procurement knowledge, and agency relationships.

- Small contractors can use the programs to strengthen bonding and procurement capabilities before pursuing direct bids.
- Procurement teams and prime contractors should account for these capacity barriers when engaging small businesses in infrastructure opportunities.
- Contractors can use the agency access pathways and monitor agency solicitations to identify opportunities to compete as primes.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Construction & Infrastructure
**Topics:** Physical Infrastructure
**Published:** October 02, 2026

### Government Entities
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro)
- Alameda County
- California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)

### Vendors
- Global Electric ()
- Phantom Builders ()

### Key Quotes
> And then when you go through, you have to have the resources in order to participate because a lot of these public works jobs require bonding.
> — William Jackson, President of Global Electric

> If this program didn’t exist, I would not be able to survive.
> — Beshoy Metry, Owner of Phantom Builders

### Sources
- [California Small Contractors Seek Infrastructure Share](https://eurweb.com/california-small-contractors) - EURweb