Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

Real quick, let me answer Dan's quick because it's a simple answer.

SDVOSB are the only firms that are allowed to be contracted to do work for the VA hospitals.

The Veterans Administration has an executive order that all their contracts must be where applicable.

Rule of two on competitive bidding has to be awarded to serviceable veterans.

Mavis, that service label comes to me.

Hey, David, someone named Mavis reached out to me.

She wants to bid under my SDVOSB under these contracts.

Okay, maybe he can bond it, maybe he can't.

It's like when you're applying for a job on base, right? USA jobs or whatever, having those preference points, that's what that does for you.

So if you're running hand-to-hand with a civilian contractor for those trail cameras for Department of Natural Resources and you have your SDVOSB, that's a preference point, so now you're one step ahead.

So there's set-asides on all these things.

If you're penny for penny for everything, that is what would put you...

I'm 51% owner, and that makes that entity a small business under the FAR regulations for the 8 program.

And I am also certified SDVOSB with the VA at the time called CVE.

That makes that entity a service disabled vendor owned small business entity able to bid and perform and win contracts as such.

I said, and under the rules of the program, we are meeting the requirements for performance between the mentor and the protege on the contract.

Yes, Kevin.

We're previously certified as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, an SDVOSB.

So when we looked at and learned from the podcast about the 8A program, we thought that there were some unique advantages that we wanted to take into consideration for future bid proposals and work.

One of those was sort of the idea of similarly situated, because we've previously done a lot of subcontracting.

You know, they're meeting their goals, but that doesn't mean they were necessarily set aside.

They had two, uh, SDVOSB awards in fiscal year '24.

Uh, no women-owned set asides based on the data I looked at.

In '25 they had three women-owned and two hub zones.