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News analysis:
Service-disabled veterans awarded majority of VA construction work
66% of VA construction contracts are set-asides to SDVOSBs
The Veterans Affairs Department has awarded the majority of its construction contracts as set-asides to small firms owned by service-disabled veterans in recent years.
For five years in a row, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) have won VA set-aside contracts for construction valued at 57% to 66% of all VA construction contract spending, according to exclusive research by Set-Aside Alert.
In fiscal 2014, for example, VA set-asides for construction work by SDVOSBs totaled $1.36 billion, which was 66% of the VA’s construction contract spending of $2.06 billion.
For fiscal 2015, the SDVOSB construction set-asides at VA totaled 75% of total construction at press time, but that data is incomplete.......
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