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GSA Awards Contract to Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Businesses
GSA #10304
December 19, 2006
Contact: Jon Anderson (202) 501-1231
jon.anderson@gsa.gov
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced award of the Veterans Technology for Services (VETS) Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) to more than 40 serviced-disabled, veteran-owned contractors. Eligible contractors will now be able to compete for federal government procurements under this contract set-aside that has a five-year option period and potential overall value of $5 billion. VETS will provide cutting edge technology solutions to federal agencies without the expense and time involved in open market set-aside procurements.
“At GSA, we’re doing our part to ensure that federal contracting opportunities are available to our nation’s service-disabled veterans” said GSA’s Administrator Lurita Doan. “These veterans placed the nation's security before their own lives, and that sacrifice creates a debt we can never fully repay, but we can and should try.”
VETS’ broad contract scope provides information security, information systems engineering and systems operations and maintenance. A complete list of industry partners is available on www.FedBizOpps.gov under solicitation number 6FG2005MTV00001 and on the VETS GWAC website at www.gsa.gov/vetsgwac. With the addition of VETS, GSA adds to its contract portfolio that includes offerings from small disadvantaged 8(a) firms and historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone) small businesses, as well as large-business integrators. Awards were made by GSA’s Small Business GWAC Center located in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Veterans Entrepreneurship Act and Small Business Development Act of 1999 established an annual government-wide goal of not less than 3 percent of the value of prime contract and subcontract awards for participation by small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans. VETS is the result of Executive Order 13360 issued on October 20, 2004 by President Bush to strengthen opportunities in federal contracting for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses.
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