America honors the extraordinary service rendered to the United States by veterans with disabilities incurred or aggravated in the line of duty during active service with the armed forces. Heads of agencies shall provide the opportunity for service-disabled veteran businesses to significantly increase the Federal contracting & subcontracting of such businesses.
The HUBZone Empowerment Contracting program was enacted into law as part of the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997. The program falls under the auspices of the US Small Business Administration. The program encourages economic development in historically underutilized business zones - "HUBZones" - through the establishment of preferences.
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist & protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise & to maintain & strengthen the overall economy of our nation.
The Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) program is a procurement tool designed to assist the government in finding firms capable of providing need services, while at the same time, helping to address the traditional exclusion of minority owned firms from contracting opportunities.
DVBE was created by service-disabled veterans. Its purpose is to assist veteran-owned businesses by profiling their companies. This portal facilitates business opportunities with Government entities & contractors.
California Multiple Award Schedules (CMAS) offer a wide variety of commodities, non-IT services, & information technology products & services at prices which have been assessed to be fair, reasonable, & competitive.