[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 13, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 13CFR125.8]



[Page 438-439]

 

                TITLE 13--BUSINESS CREDIT AND ASSISTANCE

 

                CHAPTER I--SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 125_GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING PROGRAMS--Table of Contents

 

   Subpart A_Definitions for the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small 

                        Business Concern Program

 

Sec. 125.8  What definitions are important in the Service-Disabled 

Veteran-Owned (SDVO) Small Business Concern (SBC) Program?



    Source: 69 FR 25267, May 5, 2004, unless otherwise noted.





    (a) Contracting Officer has the meaning given such term in section 

27(f)(5) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 

423(f)(5)).

    (b) Interested Party means the contracting activity's contracting 

officer, the SBA or any concern that submits an offer for a specific 

SDVO contract.

    (c) Permanent caregiver is the spouse, or an individual, 18 years of 

age or older, who is legally designated, in writing, to undertake 

responsibility for managing the well-being of the service-disabled 

veteran with a permanent and severe disability, to include housing, 

health and safety. A permanent caregiver may, but does not need to, 

reside in the same household as the service-disabled veteran with a 

permanent and severe disability. In the case of a service-disabled 

veteran with a permanent and severe disability lacking legal capacity, 

the permanent caregiver shall be a parent, guardian, or person having 

legal custody. There may be no more than one permanent caregiver per 

service-disabled veteran with a permanent and severe disability.

    (d) Service-Disabled Veteran with a Permanent and Severe Disability 

means a veteran with a service-connected disability that has been 

determined by the VA, in writing, to have a permanent and total service-

connected disability as set forth in 38 CFR 3.340 for



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purposes of receiving disability compensation or a disability pension.

    (e) Service-Connected has the meaning given that term in section 

101(16) of Title 38, United States Code.

    (f) Service-disabled veteran is a veteran with a disability that is 

service-connected.

    (g) SBC owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans (also 

known as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned SBC) is a concern--

    (1) Not less than 51% of which is owned by one or more service-

disabled veterans or, in the case of any publicly owned business, not 

less than 51% of the stock of which is owned by one or more service-

disabled veterans;

    (2) The management and daily business operations of which are 

controlled by one or more service-disabled veterans or, in the case of a 

service-disabled veteran with permanent and severe disability, the 

spouse or permanent caregiver of such veteran; and

    (3) That is small as defined by Sec. 125.11.

    (h) Spouse has the meaning given the term in section 101(31) of 

Title 38, United States Code.

    (i) Veteran has the meaning given the term in section 101(2) of 

Title 38, United States Code.



[69 FR 25267, May 5, 2004, as amended at 70 FR 14527, Mar. 23, 2005]