Small Business

A concern, including it affiliates, that is independently owned and operated and is not dominant in the field of operation for which it is soliciting business, and qualified as a small business under the criteria and size standards in 13 CFR part 121 (see FAR 19.102). Such a concern is not dominant in its field of operation when it does not exercise a controlling or major influence on a national basis in a kind of business activity in which a number of business concerns are primarily engaged.

Disadvantage Business Enterprise

The goal of the DBE Program is to ensure that firms owned and controlled by minorities, women, and other socially and economically disadvantaged persons have the opportunity to grow and become self-sufficient so that they are able to complete, on equal basis, with non-disadvantaged businesses for contracts and subcontracts in the transportation industry.

Minority-owned Business

A small business that is at least 51% owned by one or more minorities or, in the case of a publicly owned business, at least 51% of the stock is owned by one or more minorities and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by at least one minority.

Veteran-owned Business

A small business that is at least 51% owned by one or more veterans (as defined at 38 U.S.C. 101(2)) or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51% of the stock is owned by one or more veterans and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by at least one veteran.

Service-disabled Veteran-owned Business

Service-disabled veteran means a veteran, as defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(2), with a disability that is service-connected, as defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(16).

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise

A business concern certified by the Office of Small Business Certification and Resources or the Association for Service Disabled Veterans as meeting all of the following requirements:
Either an enterprise that is at least 51% owned by one or more disabled veterans or, in the case of a publicly owned business, at least 51% of its stock is owned by one or more disabled veterans; a subsidiary that is wholly owned by a parent corporation, but only if at least 51% of the voting stock of the parent corporation is owned by one or more disabled veterans; or a joint venture in which at least 51% of the joint venture’s management, control and earnings are held by at least one disabled veteran.
The management and control of the daily business operations are held by at least one disabled veteran. The disabled veterans who exercise management and control are not required to be the same disabled veterans as the owners of the business concern.
A sole proprietorship, corporation or partnership with its home office located in the United States, and which is not a branch or subsidiary of a foreign corporation, foreign firm or other foreign-based business.