Enables sole-source awards up to competitive thresholds and 8(a) set-aside competition: a direct, defensible path to award for contracting officers.
Issuing body: U.S. Small Business Administration.
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Opens SDVOSB set-asides and sole-source authority, and counts toward agency SDVOSB spending goals.
Issuing body: U.S. SBA / Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veteran-Owned Small Business. Counts toward veteran-owned goals and VA Vets First contracting preferences.
Issuing body: U.S. SBA / Department of Veterans Affairs.
Small Disadvantaged Business. Provides primes with subcontracting-plan credit toward SDB goals on every teaming arrangement.
Issuing body: U.S. Small Business Administration.
Minority Business Enterprise, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, and Virginia SWaM. State and local participation credit, including Virginia procurement preferences.
Issuing body: State-level (Virginia) and DOT-level programs.
Certified veteran-hiring employer under the Commonwealth’s V3 program. We recruit, hire, and retain veterans as policy, not branding.
Issuing body: Commonwealth of Virginia.
Self-certified at CMMC Level 2 maturity for handling Federal Contract Information and CUI-adjacent work under the DoD Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.
Basis: Self-certification. Not yet assessed by a third-party C3PAO.
Certifies JPLC’s quality management system against the ISO 9001:2015 international standard for consistent process control and continuous improvement.
Issuing body: Accredited ISO 9001:2015 registrar.