154 – Veteran certified businesses are booming find out how to start for FREE in 2023 – Renona Brown and Raffa Gibbard

In this episode, Renona Brown and Raffa Gibbard discussed how veterans can get money for starting a business. That’s why I wanted to revisit this episode for those of you who missed out on this because there are a lot of veterans out here, but they specifically were in certain tracks that the government has that allows veterans to start their business and so we’re going to talk about that in this episode.

Renona Riddle Brown is the CEO and Founder of HuRMAR Solutions, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned and Woman-Owned Small Business. HuRMAR is a Human Resources, Administrative, and Business Consulting company delivering mission-focused and solutions-oriented services to the federal, state, and private industries. After retiring from the military, Renona continued her service for the federal government sector. She knew she had so much to offer to the world, and so it was fate that she discovered the self-employment track.

Raffa Gibbard is the CEO of Brave One Contract Agency. In the Army, She was a Project Manager on several multimillion dollar projects (roads, entry control points, barracks , airfield runways and ranges in Kuwait. With Brave One Contract Agency her crews are vetted with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Interior, and the Department of Transportation. All employees have OSHA 10 certifications and supervisors have OSHA 30.

Stay tuned for this episode and let’s welcome our Govcon Giants, Renona Brown and Raffa Gibbard.

Links from the episode:

Raffa Gibbard Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raffa-gibbard-846371102/  

Corporate Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brave-one-contract-agency/ 

Website: https://www.braveone.net/ 

Email Address: info@braveone.net 

Telephone number: 828-406-7498

 

Renona Riddle Brown: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reownyourlife/ 

Website: https://www.hurmarsolutions.com/ 

Email: renonarb@hurmarsolutions.com   

Telephone: 410-961-8594

Fax: 443 283 4212

Department of Veterans Affairs Looking For Possible Contractors For Calibration of Biomedical Test Equipment

The VA Heartland Network 15, Contracting Office located at 3450 South 4th Street, Leavenworth, KS, 66048-5055 is seeking a potential qualified contractor to provide Calibration of Biomedical Test Equipment Service for the Department of Veterans Affairs, John Cochran and Jefferson Barracks Divisions of the St Louis Health Care System.

Currently a total set-aside for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business firms is anticipated based on the Veterans Administration requirement with Public Law 109-461, Section 8127 Veterans Benefit Act and VAAR 808.002 (Class Deviation), Priorities for use of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Notice to potential offerors:

All offerors who provide goods or services to the United States Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM located on the web at www.sam.gov). Additionally, all Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses or Veteran Owned Businesses who respond must be registered with the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Veterans Enterprise VetBiz Registry located at http://vip.vetbiz.gov.

Any response to this source sought from Interested parties must be received August 19, 2020 at 8:00am NLT 

Attention: Alejandra Sierra, Contracting Officer. Email: alejandra.sierra@va.gov