Oklahoma Contracting Preferences for Service-Disabled Veteran and Veteran-Owned Businesses

Service-disabled veteran businesses. Title 74, section 85.44E: in awarding contracts "for the performance of any job or service, all agencies, departments, institutions and other entities of this state and of each political subdivision of this state shall give a three-percentage point bonus preference to service-disabled veteran businesses doing business as Oklahoma firms, corporations or individuals, or which maintain Oklahoma offices or places of business". The business must be at least 51 percent owned by service-disabled veterans, with management and daily operations controlled by them. A service-disabled veteran is one "disabled as certified by the appropriate federal agency", with no minimum rating. The purchasing director has a goal of 3 percent of such contracts, which lapses when too few such businesses bid. Veteran-owned vendors to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Title 72, section 63.22 lets the department prefer an honorably discharged veteran, or a business at least 51 percent owned by one, in its own purchases, provided the vendor is registered in the federal System for Award Management or meets the department's alternative requirements.