C & M Solutions LLC, a professional services company in Lexington ParK, has received the Minority Business Award for 2008. CEO Agnes Butler accepted the award at the Southern Maryland Regional Purchasing and Small Business Procurement Expo. The Small
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| Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch, the dean of Engineering at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, visits with Agnes Butler, C & M CEO, at a conference that explored NAVAIR and private industry relationships. |
Business Administration has certified
C & M as a Small and Disadvantaged and Woman-Owned business.
“We were excited about the award, Butler said. “We had worked hard.
“The company has joined a subcontractor group, veterans and non-veterans, locally and within the Washington D.C. metropolitan area,” she added. “We hope it will help us “make our future bigger and better.”
C & M specializes in program management, procurement, logistics support, inventory control and supply support and warehouse services. The company also provides technical support in the areas of information technology, administrative and facilities management.
The company actively supports the community at large. C & M, with its partner Vyalex Total Technology Pipeline, organized a meeting for the executive director of Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering, key NAVAIR personnel and the deans from 13 engineering deans from schools in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Network. Participants were introduced to a Morgan State/Vyalex/NAVAIR program and discussed how similar programs between private industry and the Department of Defense would be beneficial, especially for students.
Company representatives serve on Southern Maryland’s Minority Business Opportunities Taskforce and are active members of the Center for Women’s Business Research, the Minority Business Alliance, the Patuxent Partnership and the National Minority Business Alliance. The St. Mary’s County school system has r