By law, federal agencies must seek to contract with small businesses and to reach small business statutory goals. While the information below highlights the service disabled veteran-owned small business and women-owned businesses, some of the tools mentioned can be used to look for eligible small businesses in several categories: small business, small disadvantaged business, historically underutilized small business zone small business, and woman-owned small business.
GSA has partnered with the following federal agencies and services to insure service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses are included in contracting opportunities.
Service-disabled veteran-owned small business owners have earned the right to receive privileged contracting opportunities with the federal government.
Currently, the federal statutory goal for SDVOSBs is 3%. An SDVOSB must be 51% owned and controlled by one or more service-disabled veterans.
GSA offers the following solutions for federal agencies to identify and utilize service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses so they can reach the statutory goal for contracting with service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.
Multiple Award Schedule contracts, or Schedules, offer a mechanism by which all federal agencies can acquire products, services and/or solutions to fulfill their needs.
Customer Service Directors are available to assist you in finding service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses on GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule.
GSA Advantage allows agencies to quickly search exclusively for SDVOSBs. It tags them with a business indicator code.
To search GSA Advantage for SDVOSB’s, select the "service-disabled veteran-owned small business" option on the GSA Advantage advanced search page. Your search results will only show products offered by service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.
The Central Contractor Registration allows agencies to search by locality for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. How to search:
The search engine of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Vendor Information Pages allows agencies to search for VA registered service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and use a wide array of criteria, including location, green North American Industry Classification System code, and the security level of the company’s personnel.
As a direct result of Executive Order 13360 issued on October 20, 2004, The Veterans Technology Services GWAC was awarded as a small business set-aside contract for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small technology firms.
Questions on the VETS GWAC may be submitted to vetsgwac@gsa.gov or by calling the Small Business GWAC Center toll free at 877-327-8732.
Five percent of Federal prime and subcontracts are set aside for women-owned small businesses. The Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract program authorizes contracting officers to set aside certain federal contracts for eligible:
Learn about qualifying as a woman-owned business [PDF - 130 KB] from the Small Business Administration.
Find more information about compliance, NAICS codes, and 3rd-party certification on the SBA website.
For a list of Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) contractors currently on GSA Multiple Award Schedules (MAS), review the GSA eLibrary under E-Tools on the GSA Schedules page, for the most accurate and up-to-date contract award information.
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