City of Frederick adds new SDVOB participation goal

MD News - Published Oct 14, 2025

The City Council for Frederick, Maryland has voted to adopt a participation goal for service-disabled veteran owned businesses (or SDVOBs) in the City's contracting. The new goal is in addition to the City's existing participation goal for minority- and woman-owned businesses (or MWBEs).

The new SDVOB participation goal will be set at 2 percent. Like the MWBE goals, the goal will be aspirational in nature. To be eligible for being counted towards the goal, an SDVOB will need to be a small business (as defined by the U.S. Small Business Administration size standards), at least 51 percent owned and controlled by a service-disabled veteran, and a for-profit business.

At the same City Council meeting at which the SDVOB goal was adopted (that being the meeting of October 2nd, 2025) the Council also modified an existing mandate for all City contracts over $10,000 to be set aside for small businesses, instituting a blanket exemption from this mandate on City contracts over $50,000, due to the fact that almost all contracts over $50,000 were, in actual practice, being exempted from those requirements.

Read more at https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/economy_and_business/city-commits-to-purchasing-from-small-businesses-owned-by-service-disabled-veterans/article_f1bfc73c-5e74-5436-a7d8-888eb7c81745.html.