Many federal laundry equipment buys, especially at the VA, are set aside for service disabled veteran owned small business or veteran owned small business. For an eligible dealer, these set asides are the most winnable federal work, and for an ineligible one they are closed.
What the set aside means
A set aside restricts competition to a designated group. The VA Veterans First program prioritizes verified veteran owned and service disabled veteran owned small business, and other agencies use the governmentwide set aside. The solicitation states the set aside and the verification a bidder must hold.
Why it decides whether you compete
If a solicitation is set aside for a group a dealer is not verified in, it cannot win it, and if a dealer is verified, the set aside removes most of the competition. The agent flags the set aside type and the verification required so eligible dealers focus on the work that is open to them.
How the agent handles it
Our agent reads the set aside status on each federal laundry solicitation, flags the SDVOSB and VOSB set asides and the verification required, and scores the fit against your status so the winnable work surfaces first.
The agent flags the veteran set asides that decide whether the federal work is open to you. See the federal and military laundry bid agent in the interactive demo.