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  • OSDBU staff member meets with small business owners while hosting an exhibit table during the event which was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC
  • Starting in June, USDA's OSDBU office will begin a series of monthly Small Business Roundtable and Networking sessions!
  • OSDBU Director, Carmen Jones, Deputy Director, Joe Ware and SDVOSB Program Manager, Michael Spencer pose for a picture with attendees at the 5th annual Service Disabled Veteran Owed Small Business Event that was held on the Patio of the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building in Washington, DC
  • In May OSDBU hosted our monthly Vendor Outreach Session for the first time at USDA’s George Washington Carver Center in Beltsville, MD
  • OSDBU Program Analyst, Janet Baylor displays our exhibit at this year’s MED week Conference. OSDBU participated in the event to provide guidance and assistance to minority-owned businesses seeking to do business with USDA
  • Food and Nutrition Service has selected Ender-York, Incorporated. Click to learn more about the services.

Welcome to the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU)

Welcome to the USDA’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU). We work to ensure that the Department’s purchasing agencies engage small businesses - the "engines that drive the Nation’s economy" - so that we have a dynamic, diverse and reliable small vendor pool.  OSDBU’s aim is to position USDA so that it achieves its Small Business Procurement Goals for prime and subcontracts awarded to:

  • Small,
  • Small Disadvantaged,
  • 8(a),
  • Woman-Owned,
  • Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), and
  • Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small businesses.
  • Small Business Subcontracting

To learn more about the Federal Government’s Contracting Programs, click here.

We also provide leadership and oversight for the AbilityOne Program.  For more information about AbilityOne, click here.

 

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