Tionesta Area Business Earns National Recognition in Support of War Effort
Veteran Employment Enterprise, Inc. (dba; VEE Sales) in Tionesta, PA will be awarded the DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) Innovative Business Performer of the Year Award for Woman Owned Small Business in Springfield, VA on Jan. 24, 2005. Vice Admiral Keith W. Lippert, SC, USN, Director, Defense Logistics Agency, will present the award.
DLA is a government agency that supplies the nation’s military services and several civilian agencies with the critical resources they need to accomplish their worldwide missions. They provide wide-ranging logistical support for peacetime and wartime operations, as well as emergency preparedness and humanitarian missions.
In the fiscal year 2004, DLA provided more than $28 billion in goods and services to all military services worldwide including significant support to both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Tionesta based VEE Sales has been working closely with DLA’s lead purchasing centers in Columbus, OH., Richmond, VA., and Philadelphia, PA. to provide that much needed support. In recognition of their effort and innovative program VEE was nominated for the award by the Small Business Office at DLA’s Defense Supply Center in Columbus, OH.
In just a little more than a year, VEE Sales is also proving to have a positive effect on the economic outlook of Northwestern PA. “It’s been a team effort all the way” says Louise Klark, VEE’s President.
By specializing in providing support throughout the complicated process of Federal Government Procurement, VEE assists their client companies, mostly manufacturers, to compete in this vast marketplace. VEE does the front end and the back end, including prescreening hundreds of opportunities to find the best opportunities with the best potential for winning those bids, providing complete assistance in bid preparation, preservation and packaging, bar coding, electronic invoicing and shipping to the various government installations. This allows their client manufacturers to be more competitive and eliminates most of the usual headaches associated with government contracts.
VEE takes great pride in providing our military men and women with the right part, at the right price, preserved and packaged to the required specifications.
VEE’s ultimate goal is to fully implement a training program to offer meaningful, gainful employment to Disabled Veterans and others. “We won’t be happy until we employ more people than Forest County has on its welfare rolls”, says one VEE Board Member.
To learn more about VEE, you can visit their website at www.veesales.us.
Press release 11/28/2004
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NEWS RELEASE
DEFENSE SUPPLY CENTER, COLUMBUS - P.O. Box 3990, Columbus, Ohio 43218-3990
Debra B. Perry, Public Affairs Officer (614) 692-2328 FAX (614) 693-1563
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Feb. 3, 2005 |
Local business wins DLA Business Alliance Award
Columbus, Ohio - Veteran Employment Enterprise of Tionesta, Pa., was among the recent winners of the Defense Logistics Agency's 2004 Business Alliance Awards.
Contractors nominated by Defense Supply Center Columbus won nine of the 18 possible awards during a Jan. 24 ceremony held in Springfield, Va.
The awards recognize suppliers who have demonstrated outstanding efforts to partner with DLA and improve the agency's mission - providing supplies and services to America's warfighters. DLA Director Navy Vice Adm. Keith W. Lippert presented the awards.
Veteran Employment Enterprise won the DLA Innovative Business Performer of the Year - Woman-Owned Small Business Award. The company is a multi-faceted logistics organization dedicated to providing training and jobs for disabled veterans and other disadvantaged individuals who lack the logistics expertise needed to compete successfully in the federal marketplace.
DSCC, a Defense Logistics Agency field activity, serves more than 24,000 military and civilian customers and 10,000 contractors as one of the largest suppliers of weapon systems parts in the world. The center's workforce of about 2,300 purchases materiel, monitors inventory levels, maintains technical data, and assures quality conformance of spare parts. These spare parts vary from common items such as vehicle parts and accessories, to complex mechanical and electronic repair parts for weapon systems.
--- For more information contact: The DSCC Public Affairs Office, 692-2328
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