Wichita, KS, May 09, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WICHITA, Kan. – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Center for Verification and Evaluation (CVE), has notified Solid Design Solutions that it has been verified as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and added to the Vendor Information Pages (VIP). This makes the company eligible to participate in the VA’s Veterans First Contracting Program. Solid Design Solutions designs and manufactures machines for the medical, agricultural, industrial and aerospace industries.
“This designation means a great deal to our team,” says Pete Gustaf, Solid Design Solutions president and CEO. “As a small business, SDVOSB provides greater opportunities for us to more fully leverage our far-reaching, change-agent products and engineering expertise.”
Solid Design Solutions was founded near Minneapolis in 1997. In January 2017, it opened an office in Wichita as a way to capitalize on the community’s Air Capital heritage and reputation for building world-class products. It specializes as an end-to-end, product and specialty machine design firm that helps bring products to market by harnessing clients’ technology, software and models in order to convert them into products that can be produced reliably and consistently. Solid Design Solutions provides industrial design, mechanical, electrical, and software engineering services and develops concepts for assembly, testing and manufacturing procedures.
“Having this certification enhances our ability to pursue opportunities,” says Gustaf, “whether winning a project as the prime contractor or partnering with a large prime contractor as subcontractor.”
Solid Design Solutions serves clients from entrepreneurial startups to such established, industry titans as 3M, Bose, Boston Scientific, Honeywell, Medtronic and Fastenal. Expertise coupled with state-of-the-art tools allow Solid Design Solutions to deliver value throughout the specialty-machine development process. Its range of medical projects spans from sophisticated assembly systems to complex clean-room process, test and measurement systems.
This SDVOSB verification is valid for three years. The Congressional act that established SDVOSB in 1999 sets an annual government-wide goal of not less than 3 percent of the total value of all prime contract and subcontract awards for small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.
“Watch for even more good things to happen at Solid Design Solutions as a result of this designation,” says Gustaf.
About Solid Design Solutions
Since its founding in 1997, Solid Design Solutions has developed a reputation for transforming ideas into market-ready products and highly accurate machine systems. It does so efficiently, cost-effectively and rapidly. Core competencies include industrial design, mechanical and electrical engineering, software/firmware engineering, IoT device development, project management, and global sourcing coordination through new product introduction. The company is based in Mounds View, Minn., and in early 2017 opened an office in Wichita, Kan.
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