ALBANY— New York State Office of General Services (OGS) Commissioner Jeanette Moy recently announced that 25 businesses across the state were certified as service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDVOB), including three small firms in Central New York. The New York OGS Division of Service-Disabled Veterans’ Business Development (DSDVBD) issued the certification to Veteran Supply Enterprise, a medical, […]
ALBANY— New York State Office of General Services (OGS) Commissioner Jeanette Moy recently announced that 25 businesses across the state were certified as service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDVOB), including three small firms in Central New York.
The New York OGS Division of Service-Disabled Veterans’ Business Development (DSDVBD) issued the certification to Veteran Supply Enterprise, a medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supply merchant wholesaler located in Kirkville; C6 Consulting & Logistics, a firm in Clinton that specializes in general warehousing and storage; and Gleason Trucking, a Forestport–based small business that specializes in dump trucking and hauling, the OGS announced on Feb. 19.
The DSDVBD was created by New York State government in May 2014 through passage of the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business Act. The state currently has 1,323 certified businesses.
For a business to receive certification, one or more service-disabled veterans — with a service-connected disability rating of 10 percent or more from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (or from the New York State Division of Veterans’ Affairs for National Guard veterans) — must own at least 51 percent of the company. Other criteria include: the business has to be independently owned and operated and have a significant business presence in New York, it must have conducted business for at least one year prior to the application date, and it must qualify as a small business under the New York State program. Several more requirements also need to be met.
