Several more businesses in Upstate also certified ALBANY— New York State Office of General Services (OGS) Commissioner Jeanette Moy recently announced that 26 businesses across the state were certified as service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDVOB), including two small firms in Central New York. The New York OGS Division of Service-Disabled Veterans’ Business Development (DSDVBD) issued the certification […]
Several more businesses in Upstate also certified
ALBANY— New York State Office of General Services (OGS) Commissioner Jeanette Moy recently announced that 26 businesses across the state were certified as service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDVOB), including two small firms in Central New York.
The New York OGS Division of Service-Disabled Veterans’ Business Development (DSDVBD) issued the certification to Y.D.E. Properties and Property Management, which is located in Memphis (town of Van Buren in Onondaga County) and buys, sells, and manages real estate property. The other local firm obtaining certification was CNY Trimlight, an Oneonta–based (Otsego County) electrical and other wiring installation contractor, the OGS announced on Aug. 26.
Other businesses receiving SDVOB certification in upstate New York were the following:
• A Aye Aye, located in Tonawanda (Erie County), provides professional software solutions, specializing in AI governance, compliance automation, and risk-management framework to support federal, defense, and enterprise clients,
• Burke Electric, headquartered in Menands (Albany County), is a commercial electrical contractor.
• Haselton Lumber Products, based in Wilmington (Essex County in the Adirondacks), specializes in custom architectural woodwork and millwork manufacturing.
• Upstate Edge, located in Albany, is a cannabis dispensary.
• Grobiotics, based in Saranac Lake (Essex County in the Adirondacks), is a cannabis micro dispensary.
The DSDVBD was created by the New York State government in May 2014 through passage of the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business Act. The state currently has 1,382 certified businesses.
For a business to receive certification, one or more service-disabled veterans — with a service-connected disability rating of 10 percent or more from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (or from the New York State Division of Veterans’ Affairs for National Guard veterans) — must own at least 51 percent of the company. Other criteria include: the business has to be independently owned and operated and have a significant business presence in New York, it must have conducted business for at least one year prior to the application date, and it must qualify as a small business under the New York State program. Several more requirements also need to be met.
