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VA updates, expands, and clarifies its Verification Assistance Briefs

January 10, 2020 By Andrew Smith

VAlogoThe VA and SBA have numerous regulations defining the eligibility requirements for participation in the veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small business programs.  To help laypersons better understand these regulatory hurdles the VA publishes Verification Assistance Briefs.  These “are resources to assist applicants in obtaining VA Verification for the Veterans First Contracting Program” and understand SBA’s ownership and control criteria.  The VA recently updated all of its existing Briefs and added some new ones.  Read on for an overview of the 26 Briefs and a more detailed look at some of the more notable ones.

The VA has broken its Briefs into four categories: Eligibility, Ownership, Control, and Small Business Criteria.  17 of these Briefs are updates to ones that were previously several years out-of-date, and the remaining 9 are first-time Briefs. Structurally, the Briefs each (1) address a unique question, (2) provide the regulatory language addressing that question, and (3) paraphrase the regulations in an attempt to make them easier to understand.  In some Briefs, such as Good Character Eligibility Requirement, the third component is just a regurgitation of the regulation.  While simply paraphrasing regulatory language might not be that helpful, the VA does expand its insights on other Briefs, highlighted below.

Continue reading at:  SmallGovCon

Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: VA Verification, Verification Assistance Brief

GTPAC launches Veterans verification video

May 16, 2019 By Andrew Smith

The Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center (“GTPAC”) has created a new free training resource for Veteran small business owners.  GTPAC, with the support of the Defense Logistics Agency (“DLA”), has produced a free video that provides a detailed explanation of how Veterans can get their small business verified as a Veteran-Owned Small Business (“VOSB”) or Service-disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (“SDVOSB”) under the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (“VA”) Vets First Verification Program.

SDVOSBs and VOSBs receive certain preferences in the federal procurement process, including SDVOSB and VOSB set-aside contracts, sole-source awards (for SDVOSBs), and subcontracting opportunities with federal prime contractors, who are often required to utilize SDVOSBs and VOSBs in their subcontracting plans.

“This video is a great resource for helping VOSBs and SDVOSBs understand the verification process at VA, and how they can benefit from getting verified,” said Andrew E. Smith, Program Manager of the Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center, he continued, “We take great pride in assisting our Veteran small business clients here in Georgia, and want them to take full advantage of the opportunities that are available to them.”

Each year, the federal government awards billions of dollars in contracts to VOSBs and SDVOSBs.  Federal prime contractors also frequently subcontract work to VOSBs and SDVOSBs when performing large government contracts.

GTPAC hopes this video helps Veterans understand the verification process, and makes that process a little bit easier.

Additional resources including links to key VA Verification websites is available on the Veterans Verification Video page.

Filed Under: GTPAC News Tagged With: SDVOSB, service disabled, verification, Verification Assistance Brief, veteran-owned, veterans, Veterans First, VOSB

VA’s SDVOSB JV verification assistance brief is wrong

June 7, 2017 By Andrew Smith

The VA’s Verification Assistance Brief for SDVOSB and VOSB joint ventures flat-out misstates the law regarding the manner in which joint venture profits must be split.

SDVOSBs and VOSBs often rely on Verification Assistance Briefs to guide them through the CVE verification process, and CVE analysts sometimes use Verification Assistance Briefs, too.  Which begs the question: how many CVE-verified joint ventures are legally invalid?

The VAAR provides that a joint venture can be eligible for a VA SDVOSB or VOSB set-aside contract so long as the joint venture (among other things) adopts a joint venture agreement meeting the requirements of the SBA’s SDVOSB regulations.  So far, so good–joint ventures are complex enough; the last thing we need is a separate, VA-specific list of SDVOSB joint venture requirements.

Effective August 24, 2016, the SBA overhauled its requirements for SDVOSB joint ventures.  The SBA moved the regulations from 13 C.F.R. 125.15 to 13 C.F.R. 125.18, and made many substantive changes and additions.

Keep reading this article at: http://smallgovcon.com/service-disabled-veteran-owned-small-businesses/the-vas-sdvosb-jv-verification-assistance-brief-is-wrong/

Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: CVE, joint venture, SBA, SDVOSB, VA, verification, Verification Assistance Brief, veteran owned business, VOSB

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