{"id":4232,"date":"2025-07-31T20:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:38:21","slug":"common-small-business-set-asides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2025\/07\/common-small-business-set-asides\/","title":{"rendered":"How common are small business set-asides like SDVOSB?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We were speaking with someone from a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)\u00a0 that wanted to look at contracts set-aside for companies that qualify.\u00a0 This started a discussion about how common the various set-aside types are in open solicitations.\u00a0 To provide some clarity we looked at all open solicitations (29,267 at the time of this article) and pulled a tally of the various set-aside types including small business, Service Disabled Veteran, HubZone, and others.<\/p>\n

As we can see below, Service Disabled Veteran Small Businesses are receiving the most set-aside contracts.<\/p>\n\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Set-aside type<\/strong><\/td>\nSolicitations<\/strong><\/td>\nPercentage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Small business set-aside<\/td>\n5,094<\/td>\n17.41%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Service Disabled Veteran (SDVOSB)<\/td>\n803<\/td>\n2.74%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woman Owned Small bus sole-source<\/td>\n155<\/td>\n0.53%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hubzone Set-Aside<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n0.29%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Indian Small Bus<\/td>\n91<\/td>\n0.31%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8a program<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n0.09%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Indian Economic Enterprise<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n0.08%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Small Bus partial set-aside<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n0.04%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n0.03%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Very small business<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n0.02%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Small business set-asides are defined in FAR 19.5<\/a>.\u00a0 Hubzones are economically disadvantaged geographic areas as define by FAR 19.13<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We were speaking with someone from a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)\u00a0 that wanted to look at contracts set-aside for companies that qualify.\u00a0 This started a discussion about how common the various set-aside types are in open solicitations.\u00a0 To provide some clarity we looked at all open solicitations (29,267 at the time of … <\/p>\n

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