Set-Aside Contracts and Sole-Source Awards for SDVOB

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The Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-83) established a procurement program for SDVOSB Concerns (SDVOSBC) For set aside contracts, the guidelines enabling contracting officers to restrict competition to service-disabled veteran-owned companies require that:

A minimum of two small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans will submit bids
The expected award price of the contract (including options) will not exceed $3 million for non-manufacturing SIC code contracts
In the estimation of the contracting officer, the contract can be made at a fair and reasonable price

The President of the United States issued Executive Order 13360 on October 20, 2004, which strengthened opportunities in Federal contracting for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concerns.

Joint venture and Mentor-Protégé agreements are permitted within the SDVOSBC program.

The objective of this procurement program is to assist agencies in achieving the statutorily mandated 3% government-wide goal for procurement from Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concerns.

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