The 2028 procurement window.
Pre-qualify now.
LA28 suppliers — small, minority, women-owned, and veteran-owned businesses — face a hard 2028 deadline. HTCJ runs the cooperative underwriting + certification prep lane, so you arrive to the procurement window with the right registrations, the right capacity, and the right paperwork on file. Eight fields. One intake. Replies within one business day.
Lead lands in the CRM with referralSource = la28_supplier_readiness
What this is
Supplier readiness, not supplier wishful thinking.
The 2028 LA28 procurement cycle will favor certified, capacity-staged, and capital-ready small businesses. Most applicants show up with a great product and none of the registrations, NAICS codes, certification paperwork, or vendor-system credentials that the procurement gates score on. The window is short. Rebuilding is expensive. The supplier that pre-positions wins.
HTCJ is the cooperative underwriting + certification prep lane for that window. You bring the business; we bring the 14-stage CRM workflow, the AI-assisted routing to the right department, and the executive review that protects the risky parts of the deal.
Certification journey
Three steps from intake to procurement-ready.
The intake below is the entry point. After submission, HTCJ runs your record through the same 14-stage pipeline the rest of the CRM uses — just oriented at the supplier-readiness desk.
The HTCJ operating backbone is the same 14-stage pipeline the rest of the CRM uses — from INQUIRY to ALUMNI. Your intake lands as INTAKE_SUBMITTED with consentAcknowledged = true and a first PipelineStageHistory row already in place.
AI-assisted routing maps your needs to recommended HTCJ departments, courses, cohorts, capital pathways, corporate opportunities, and referral partners. The recommendation is REVIEW by default and bumps to LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED whenever the request touches equity, regulated finance, IP licensing, government contracts, or partner agreements. The CRM never auto-applies a recommendation that hits those tags.
The HTCJ ID you receive (HTCJ-YEAR-NNNNN) is yours for life — the same ID you receive through the universal intake at /contact. A confirmation email is dispatched the moment the row lands.
How HTCJ qualifies
The supplier-readiness lane.
- Identity + ownership. Small, minority, women, veteran — the form tags your lane so the desk can pick the right certification track.
- Capacity signal. Business stage, location, and services-of-interest tell us whether you need certification prep, capacity building, capital pathway support, or vendor registration.
- Risk gate. Anything touching legal, funding, or confidential terms holds in executive review before your record is active.
Start the intake.
Eight fields, one consent, an HTCJ ID. Your lead lands with referralSource = la28_supplier_readiness on the Contact row and flows into the supplier-readiness desk.
Reach the supplier-readiness desk directly.
If the intake form is too much friction, the team replies to hack-the-concrete-jungle@polsia.app within one business day. The same routing workflow runs either way.