Government Careers & Recruitment
Veteran-owned businesses to gain priority for some Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) contracts must now provide docu- mentation verifying their status within 90 days of receiving notice from the agency. “VA is committed to doing business
Veteran-Owned Businesses Get Priorty T
o further advocate for Veterans, VA announced that companies identify- ing themselves as small businesses or
with as well as supporting and protec- ting Veteran-owned small businesses,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “Although the verification pro- cess may initially be a challenge to some small business owners and to VA, it’s a necessary step to eliminate misrepresen- tation by firms trying to receive contracts that should go to service-disabled and other Veteran-owned vendors.” The Veterans Benefits Act of 2010,
signed by the President Oct. 13, expanded VA’s requirement to verify the status of bu- sinesses claiming Veterans preference to compete for VA contracts by being listed in VA’s
VetBiz.gov “Vendor Information Pages” (VIP) database. Companies will have to submit an application to substan- tiate their status as owned and controlled by Veterans, service-disabled Veterans or eligible surviving spouses. Only compa- nies that submit the information will be listed in the VIP database. The law requires VA to notify currently
listed businesses that within 90 days of the Veteran-owned business receiving the notice they must submit certain business documents. VA sent notices to more than 13,000 listed businesses by email and mail Dec. 10-11. Other companies, wan- ting to be listed in the database and con- sidered for future set-aside VA contracts, also have to submit application packages. VA will work on those verifications after the existing listings are verified. The department plans to post addi-
tional information at
www.VetBiz.gov in early February informing applicants how to submit their documents electronical- ly. In the meantime, VA’s notice to cur- rently listed businesses encourages them to submit their information on CD-ROM.
68 Priority processing will be given to
those Veteran-owned firms that are in line to receive a set-aside contract from VA, those that already conduct business with VA, and those that have already filed an application for verification.
www.blackeoejournal.com For more information, visit the Of-
fice of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization’s website at
www.va.gov/OS- DBU/veteran/
verification.asp or the main page at
www.va.gov/osdbu/.
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