Department of Veterans Affairs, Veteran Owned Small Business Verification Program

by RSSFeed on May 17, 2013

Action:  Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule-making, May 13, 2013, 78 FR 27882, VA-2013-VACO-0004
Docket NameAO63 – Advanced Notice

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) is currently reviewing its regulations governing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) Verification Program. OSDBU intends to improve the regulations to provide greater clarity, to streamline the program, and to encourage more VOSBs to apply for verification. OSDBU seeks comments on how best to approach this undertaking. Although OSDBU identified specific issues, it encourages commenters to discuss any issue related to improving these specific regulations and the program.

Comments are due by July 12, 2013.

 

Article source: http://www.sba.gov/content/department-veterans-affairs-veteran-owned-small-business-verification-program

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