We've been a minority and women-owned business since the day we filed our LLC paperwork in 2019. The ownership never changed. The values never changed. The way we run a route never changed.
What did change, this month, is that all of that is now officially verified. Trash Time Valet Service is an OSD Certified Business Enterprise. The certificate is in hand. The record is searchable. And if you're a property manager, school district contact, or institutional buyer reading this, that piece of paper just made your life a little easier.
Here's the plain-English version of what we earned, what it took, and what it does for the people we work with.
What is OSD CBE certification?
OSD stands for the Office of Supplier Development. CBE stands for Certified Business Enterprise. Together, they're the formal program that verifies a business is genuinely owned, controlled, and operated by people from groups historically underrepresented in public and private procurement, in our case, that's a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women Business Enterprise (WBE) designation, rolled into one certification.
It's not a self-attestation. It's not a checkbox on a vendor form. The certification is awarded after a documented review of:
- Ownership records and operating agreements
- Financial statements showing the certified owners control the company
- Independence from any larger parent entity
- Day-to-day operational authority, the certified owners actually run the business
- Site visits and interviews
Once it's granted, the certification carries weight with everyone from Orange County procurement offices to corporate supplier-diversity programs run by major property management groups.
Why this matters for property managers
If you manage multifamily communities for an institutional owner, an REIT, or a national property management group, you almost certainly file a quarterly or annual supplier diversity report. That report tracks what percentage of your vendor spend went to certified diverse vendors, and it rolls up into your ownership group's ESG and procurement dashboards.
Most property managers we talk to are running 4-8% diverse-vendor spend and have a target somewhere north of 15%. Hitting that target without sacrificing service quality is hard. Valet trash is one of the easier line items to convert, it's a real, recurring expense, the work is highly visible to residents, and the vendor pool is wide enough to find quality.
By bringing TTVS on as your valet trash and junk removal vendor, you're not making a charitable concession. You're getting a local, owner-operated team and also moving the needle on a metric you're already reporting.
Why this matters for school districts & municipal buyers
Orange County Public Schools, Seminole County Public Schools, the City of Orlando, and most state-funded procurement processes have minority-vendor preference clauses written into their contracting rules. Some contracts require at least one certified diverse bidder. Others award tie-breaker points to certified vendors during scoring.
Before May 2026, we couldn't compete for those preferences. Now we can. If you handle facilities or procurement for a public entity in our service area and need a valet trash, hauling, or one-time cleanout vendor on your bid list, please put us on it.
Why this matters for residents
This is the part we care about most. Certification doesn't change a single thing about how Johnathan walks a hallway at 8 PM or how Johanne answers a missed-pickup text at 9 the next morning. But it does change the kind of community our service quietly supports.
Every dollar a community spends with a certified minority-and-women-owned business is a dollar staying inside a local, family-run business in the neighborhoods we already serve. It's a small but real economic stake in the place residents call home. We don't say that to be sentimental, we say it because the data backs it up. Local, certified businesses reinvest a higher share of revenue into local payroll, local supply, and local hiring than national vendors do.
What this certification gets you that a "minority-owned" claim doesn't
"Minority-owned" without a certification is a statement. OSD CBE certification is evidence. Specifically, partnering with us gets you:
- A certificate for your vendor file. Searchable, verifiable, accepted by every major supplier-diversity reporting platform. We can email the PDF the same day you ask.
- Diversity-spend reporting credit. Every invoice you pay TTVS counts in your supplier-diversity numbers, without you having to justify or document the vendor classification yourself.
- Easier internal approvals. Some property management groups require a second-level approval to onboard a non-certified small vendor. CBE certification typically clears that hurdle in one step.
- Audit-ready documentation. If your ownership group ever audits its supplier-diversity claims (some do, every couple of years), TTVS is now in the easy column.
- Tie-breaker eligibility on bids. Where applicable, our bid is now eligible for diverse-vendor preference scoring.
If your procurement team has ever asked you to "find a qualified diverse vendor for X line item," valet trash and junk hauling are two of the most realistic conversions on the typical property's expense sheet. Both are us.
What hasn't changed
Everything about how we run the work. The owner still answers her own phone. The crew still wears branded vests. Routes still start at 8 PM, six nights a week, holidays included. Missed-pickup texts still get a same-day response from somebody named on the LLC, not somebody in a call center.
Certification is the wrapper. The service inside the wrapper is the same one our partners signed for in 2018, and 2022, and last month.
If you want to see the paperwork
We're happy to send the OSD CBE certificate to anyone who needs it for a vendor file, a procurement record, or just their own due diligence. Most property managers attach it to their MSA along with our COI and W-9.
Email info@trashtimevaletservice.com or text the owner at 689-238-9656 and ask for the credentials packet. You'll have it within the hour during business hours.
What's next
This certification opens a few doors we couldn't walk through before. Over the next 90 days we're rolling out:
- A formal bid process for two Orange County Public Schools facilities contracts.
- A supplier-diversity onboarding form for property management groups that want TTVS in their preferred-vendor pool.
- Expanded recycling routes, one of the highest-impact ESG line items we can offer multifamily partners alongside the diversity certification.
If you're managing or owning property in greater Orlando and you've been quietly looking for a way to upgrade both your vendor quality and your diversity-spend numbers in the same move, this is it. Request a quote and we'll send the certificate, pricing, and a one-page diversity-spend summary the same day.
Questions about how the certification works for your community or portfolio? Text or call us at 689-238-9656 or request a quote.