Does anybody have experience (or know anyone) that used the designated minority business enterprise status to win new business with government, state, or corporations, specifically within a healthcare services context.
Have heard of others bidding on contract opportunities reserved for WBEs and MBEs, and also using it to win new business with large corporations who have allocated a percentage of supplier spend to diverse suppliers
Leveraging MBE (minority business enterprise) status
by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School
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The most simple explanation - most potential buyers will not qualify for the designation and will eventually lose it, and the corresponding revenue. You do not want to put yourself in a situation where you are convincing a potential buyer that "you would still win all this business in the future without the designation".