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Groups say veteran-owned contracting still broken
Veterans service organizations say despite attempts at improvement, the Department of Veterans Affairs' verification process for veteran-owned small businesses is still barring legitimate firms from contracts with the department, while doing little to deter actual fraud.
Tags: VA , Congress , acquisition , acquisition policy , SDVOSB , veterans , Joe Wynn , Davy Leghorn , Mark Goldschmitt , Center for Veterans Enterprise , Jared Serbu
VA not doing enough to verify service-disabled veteran owned firms
GAO highlights a need for tighter controls to fix the contracting program.
Tags: GAO , GSA , SBA , Veterans Affairs , VetBiz , contracting , acquisition , acquisition policy , industry , Taeja Smith
Congress mulls expansion of VA's system to verify veteran-owned firms
The Veterans Affairs Department's process for verifying eligibility in the service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses program could become standard procedure for all agencies. VA is the only department that checks to make sure contractors are eligible.
Tags: acquisition , contracting , Ruben Gomez , SBA , GAO , House , House Oversight and Government Reform Commitee
OMB tells agencies to ignore ruling on small business contracting
GAO say parity among 8(a), service disabled and HUBZone programs is no longer valid.
Tags: contracting , Peter Orszag , OMB , GAO , GSA , SBA , small business , 8(a) , HUBZone ,
VA sets rules for set-aside program
Final regulation applies to all agencies for determining eligibility of veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. Agencies spent almost $20 billion with these firms in 2008.
Tags: contracting , VA , SBA , GAO , Veteran-owned small business , Small business contracting
