Executive Order 13360

Agency – Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)

Agency Strategy: The following actions have been taken, or will be taken, to provide opportunities for service-disabled veteran businesses to significantly increase their contracting and subcontracting with the RRB.

• The Director of Administration is the senior-level official designated with the responsibility for developing and implementing the RRB’s strategy;
   
• The RRB will make the strategy publicly available through its website and report progress annually to the Small Business Administration;
   
• The RRB will include development and implementation of its strategy and achievements in furtherance of the strategy as significant elements in the performance plans of its designated senior-level official, chief acquisition officer, and director of small and disadvantaged business utilization;
   
• The RRB will reserve certain contracts exclusively for service-disabled veteran businesses;
   
• The RRB will encourage and facilitate participation by service-disabled veteran businesses in competitions for award of the agency’s contracts;
   
• The RRB will encourage its contractors to subcontract with service-disabled veteran businesses and actively monitor and evaluate its contractors’ efforts to do so;
   
• The RRB will train its personnel on applicable law and policies relating to participation of service-disabled veteran businesses in federal contracting; and
   
• The RRB will disseminate information to service-disabled veteran businesses that would assist these businesses in participating in awards of the agency’s contracts.