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The State of Tennessee grants special consideration for Tennessee service-disabled veteran owned businesses, similar to the consideration given to women-owned businesses in the awarding and procuring of state contracts.

The company must be owned at least 51% by a service-disabled veteran.

        Under the law, all Tennessee state agencies are required to actively solicit bids and proposals for equipment, supplies, personal services, professional services, consulting services, construction contracts, and architectural and engineering services from minority, woman, and veteran-owned and other protected classes of small businesses in order to strive to obtain a fair proportion of procurements from each of the different types of businesses.

        Veteran owned businesses are for-profit businesses that are at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more service-disabled veterans who served honorably on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces.

        For purposes of the law, the service-disabled veteran business owner must have at least a 20 percent service-connected disability.

Tennessee Links:

Tennessee Department of Veteran’s Affairs: State Resource for Veteran Benefits

SBDC: Small Business Development Center

Tennessee Department of General Services: Doing business with the State of Tennessee