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Veterans Affairs, VA Small Business Update A Briefing for the Advisory Committee

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Veterans Business Affairs Briefing by Sharon Ridley, Deputy Executive Director for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) September 3, 2020

This is a text-only version of a presentation delivered during the Advisory Committee on Business Affairs quarterly meeting. Slides marked with an asterisk indicate that there are accompanyinggraphsavailable.Pleasereachouttoveteransbusiness@sba.govforacopyofthe

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SLIDE 1 – TITLE SLIDE SLIDE 2 – AGENDA

• IncreasingProcurementOpportunities forVeteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSBs)
• VA Acquisitions COVID-19Initiatives
• Center for Verification andEvaluation

SLIDE 3 – VA SMALL BUSINESS PERFORMANCE* VAprovidesprocurementopportunitiesfor allsmallbusinesses.However,Service-Disabled Veteran-OwnedSmallBusinesses(SDVOSBs)andVeteran-OwnedSmallBusinesses(VOSBs) are given the highestpriority. All small business (2020):

• VA Goal: 28.2%
• VA Achievement: 31.9%
• VA Dollars (Billions):$6.495

SDVOSB (2020):

• VA Goal: 15.0%
• VA Achievement: 23.8%
• VA Dollars (Billions):$4.853

VOSB (2020):

• VA Goal: 17.0%
• VA Achievement: 24.0%
• VA Dollars (Billions):$4.887

Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) – includes 8(a) (2020):

• VA Goal: 5.0%
• VA Achievement: 10.9%
• VA Dollars (Billions):$2.221

Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) (2020):

• VA Goal: 5.0%
• VA Achievement: 3.0%
• VA Dollars (Billions):$0.617

Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) (2020):

• VA Goal: 3.0%
• VA Achievement: 2.3%
• VA Dollars (Billions):$0.471

Source: Federal Procurement Data System. FiscalYear 2020YTD data reported as of August 6, 2020. SLIDE 4 – PARTICIPATION IN COVID-19 CONTRACT ACTIONS As of August 11, 2020

• Small Business: 43.0%
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business:31.9%
• Veteran-Owned Small Business:32.5%

TOTAL: $1.119 Billion SLIDE 5 – EMERGENCY ACQUISITION FLEXIBILITIES

• TheSeniorProcurementExecutivereleasedamemorandumregardingemergency

flexibilities to addressCOVID-19.

• Key takeaways:
• No changes to Veterans First requirements and hierarchy
• VA Rule of Two continues to be followed
• Micro-purchaseandSimplifiedAcquisitionThresholdincreasedtemporarilyfor

COVID-19 actions only

• FederalProcurementDataSystemuserscanidentifyCOVID-19transactionsby

filtering “National Interest Description” and selecting “COVID-192020” SLIDE 6 – CENTER FOR VERIFICATION PROCESSING TIMES Good News:

• The FY 2020 to date total time to complete an application is only 34 days.
• The authorized regulatory time frame is 90 days.

SLIDE 7 – CENTER FOR VERIFICATION STATISTICS* Number of Applications:

• Created
• July:

1,490

• August (in progress):127

• Submitted
• July:

712

• August (in progress):53
• Completed (excl. withdrawals)
• July:

1,325

• August

(in progress): 172 Processed Simplified Reverification:

• July:

106

• August

(in progress): 11 Site Visits:

• July:

36

• FYTD:

353 Total Number of Verified Firms: 14,322

• SDVOSB: 11,114
• VOSB: 3,208

SLIDE 8 – CVE 2020 EFFICIENCIES AND PROCESS HIGHLIGHTS

• Simplified renewal process has led to a 15% increase in efficiency in the CVE process
• Full Federal processing program of cases has led to a 2% increase in efficiency in the

CVE process

• Reduced risk case processing program decreases time for Federal Review by up to

74%

• All Veteran applicants still assigned a personal case analyst to provide superlative

customer service

• Issues can be fixed withadditional information or updated businessdocuments within

the process

• Robust customer service call center and risk program

SLIDE 9 – STATUS OF CVE TRANSFER TO SBA 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

• Two versions of the NDAA – each has passed their respective house
• H.R. 6395 includes the text of H.R. 1615, a stand-alone bill that lays out the

Government-widecertificationofSDVOSBs.Ittransfersallpeopleandassetsof CVE to SBA. Discussion of H.R. 1615 was held at previous meetings

• S. 4049 does not include the Federal certification of SDVOSBs nor the transfer
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• Differences to be resolved in conference committee - Conference committees are

usually convened to resolve bicameral differences on major and controversial legislation SLIDE 10 – STAY CONNECTED WITH OSDBU OSDBU Help Desk:

• Phone: 1–866–584–2344
• Email: vip@va.gov
• Hours: 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Eastern Time)

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