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State Procurement — No Veteran or Service-Disabled Bid Preference

The Consolidated Procurement Code builds seven bid preferences at 2%, 4% and 7% — for end products, in-state offices and inventory, manufacturing and labour. None of them is a veteran preference, and the words "veteran" and "service-disabled" do not appear in the chapter.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The Consolidated Procurement Code builds seven bid preferences at 2%, 4% and 7% — for end products, in-state offices and inventory, manufacturing and labour. None of them is a veteran preference, and the words "veteran" and "service-disabled" do not appear in the chapter.

Who is entitled to it

  • This record is about what a veteran business owner will and will not find in the procurement code.
  • Your home is in South Carolina.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Do not build a bid around a veteran preference in this State. The preferences that exist in §11-35-1524 are about where the product is made, where the office and inventory sit, and where the labour is performed.
  2. 2Look at the resident-vendor preferences instead. A veteran-owned firm that manufactures in-state, or performs the labour in-state, can reach 7% on that basis like any other bidder.
  3. 3Check the federal route separately. Federal service-disabled veteran-owned set-asides are a different system and are unaffected by this silence.
  4. 4Ask the procuring agency whether a solicitation carries its own goal. Nothing read this session establishes one, but a single solicitation is not the Code.
Form
None — there is nothing to claim
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No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionVeteran business directories frequently list a state bid preference here. The chapter that creates every other bid preference does not create one, and the terms do not appear in it.
Known gapA preference could sit in a proviso to an appropriations act or in an agency’s own solicitation rather than in the Code. Neither was read this session, so this records the Code’s silence and nothing wider.

Sources

Why only one source type: An absence is established by reading the chapter that would contain the preference. The procurement office’s own vendor pages were not reachable this session, so the record claims only what the Code shows.

This finder provides an informational match, not a government eligibility determination. The responsible agency decides your application.