You can have your small business flagged as service-disabled veteran-owned in the Virginia Small, Women-owned and Minority-owned Business vendor database, which state buyers use when they award contracts. It is a designation on an existing SWaM certification rather than a separate certification.
Submit the SDVOB application for certification. If your business has no SWaM certification yet, start with the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity. For certification questions call the Virginia Department of Veterans Services at 540-597-1730; for SWaM and designation questions call the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity at 804-786-6585.
Your DD214 showing an honorable discharge from active duty, your VA service-connected disability rating documentation, proof of your ownership share, and your business’s employee count and gross receipts for the last three years.
