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NASA-Wide Veteran Owned Small Business & Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Industry Day 2012

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Attention ALL SDVOSBs and Veteran Owned Businesses:

NASA Veteran Owned Business and SDVOSB Industry Day 2012
Houston Texas
January 31, 2012

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is announcing a “NASA-Wide Veteran Owned Small Business/Service Disabled Veteran-owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Industry Day 2012” event to be hosted by the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center on January 31, 2012, in Houston, TX.

All Veteran Owned Small Businesses/Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses are highly encouraged to attend this NASA-wide event and participate in various Workshops such as “Responding to Market Research and Sources Sought Synopses”, “NASA Mentor Protégé Program”, “Small Business Program Changes”, and “Working with Prime Contractors”, as well as sign up for One-on-One Business Matchmaking Sessions to present your company capabilities. You will have the opportunity to present your company capabilities to various JSC Center Program and Technical Directorates, all the NASA Centers, as well as local JSC Large Prime Contractors.

NASA has placed high importance on achieving the SDVOSB goal  participation for Fiscal Year 2012 and beyond and therefore is seeking the maximum practicable attendance and participation of all SDVOSB’s.

Your attention is invited to visit the following weblink at
http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/SB-IndustryDay.html for more information on the Agenda for the day’s events, RSVP information, maps and directions, as well as to sign up for the Workshops and One-on-One Business Matchmaking Sessions.

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VA Set to Verify Veteran Small Businesses; New Verification Process To Support and Protect Veteran Owned Small Businesses

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

VA Set to Verify Veteran Small Businesses

(article: VA Set to Verify Veteran Small Businesses)
(source: Department of Veterans Affairs – Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization)


WASHINGTON–(January 3, 2011)–To further advocate for Veterans, VA announced that companies identifying themselves as small businesses or Veteran-owned businesses to gain priority for some Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) contracts must now provide documentation verifying their status within 90 days of receiving notice from the agency.

“VA is committed to doing business with as well as supporting and protecting Veteran-owned small businesses,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “Although the verification process may initially be a challenge to some small business owners and to VA, it’s a necessary step to eliminate misrepresentation 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 businesses 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 substantiate their status as owned and controlled by Veterans, service-disabled Veterans or eligible surviving spouses. Only companies 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, wanting to be listed in the database and considered 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 additional information at www.VetBiz.gov in early February informing applicants how to submit their documents electronically. In the meantime, VA’s notice to currently listed businesses encourages them to submit their information on CD-ROM.

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.

For more information, visit the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization’s website at www.va.gov/OSDBU/veteran/verification.asp or the main page at www.va.gov/osdbu/.

VA Starts Mentoring for Veteran-Owned Small Businesses

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Starts Mentoring Program for Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB)

(article: VA Starts Mentoring for Veteran-Owned Small Businesses)
(source: Department of Veterans Affairs – Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization)

Washington
(December 22, 2010) - To help small businesses owned by service-disabled Veterans and other Veteran-owned small businesses become more competitive in the marketplace, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected 20 mentor-protégé teams to participate in a new program.

“For VA, it’s a natural goal to award government contracts to qualified Veteran-owned small businesses,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki.  “Not only does it benefit the Veteran entrepreneur, but VA gets the contractor support it needs more quickly and with less risk.  All Veterans win by getting better services from VA.”

The program commits participating firms to agreements of up to 36 months in which mentoring firms provide business assistance in various skill areas and foster long-term business relationships with their Veteran-owned protégé firms.  The mentor and protégé firms will prepare their own agreements.

VA selected the teams based on its assessment of small businesses owned by Veterans and the ability of potential mentoring firms to offer help with development.

Small-business specialists in VA’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization reviewed the agreements formed by the participants.  The mentoring firms are not necessarily Veteran-owned.  Their mentoring can benefit the protégé firms if VA evaluates them in bidding for future contracts or subcontracts.

VA said it plans to select five more pairs of mentor and protégé firms next month.  VA will select additional mentor-protégé teams next August and approximately every six months thereafter.

More information on the new program can be found at http://www.va.gov/osdbu.

Orlando Florida Radio Story about the Veteran Owned Business Directory Project

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

VeteranOwnedBusiness.com LogoWe’d like to give a special “thank you” to Marva Hinton at Central Florida’s WDBO-AM for her recent story on VeteranOwnedBusiness.com.   We’ve received several new member sign ups in the Central Florida area as well as a few calls and emails from proud Americans thanking us and wishing us well. View full WDBO story…

Thank You, Marva Hinton and WDBO AM Radio!

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