In March 2002, GSA and the Veterans Affairs partnered to offer the Service Disabled Veterans Business Association (SDVBA), a community resource program providing service-disabled veterans to commercial companies to perform various tasks, the opportunity to provide facility management services at the Veterans Administration Headquarters Building in Washington, DC. The SDVBA partnered with a large commercial business concern, Consolidated Engineering Services Inc., to provide complete facility management services using service disabled veterans.
This “Patriot Partnership” represents an innovative approach because the Government receives high quality facility management services managed by recognizable leaders in their industry, while affording expanded employment opportunities to disabled persons as envisioned under the Jacob Wagner O’Day Act. The contract has been highly successful at the Veterans Affairs Building.
For more information, contact Ms. Doris A. Cook at (202) 708-5841 or via e-mail at doris.cook@gsa.gov
