(a) ALJ means Administrative Law Judge, appointed by the Office of Administrative Hearings in accordance with Government Code section 11502, subdivision (b).

(b) Applicant means a business that has submitted a request for certification as a Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise with the Office of Small Business and DVBE Services (OSDS).

(c) Awarding department is as defined in Military and Veterans Code section 999, subdivision (b)(2).

(d) Bid means an offer made in response to a solicitation.

(e) Broker or Agent means any individual or entity that does not have title, possession, control, and risk of loss of materials, supplies, services, or equipment provided to an awarding department.

(f) Commensurate means corresponding in size, amount, degree; or proportion.

(g) Complete federal tax return means copies of all forms, schedules, amendments (if any), and attachments as submitted to the Internal Revenue Service.

(h) Contract is as defined in Military and Veterans Code section 999, subdivision (b)(4).

(i) Contractor means any individual or entity that enters into a contract.

(j) Control, as subdivision (b)(10) of section 999 of the Military and Veterans Code references, means the disabled veteran owners and/or disabled veteran managers, have the power and authority to determine the overall destiny and day-to-day operations of the business.

(k) Department or DGS means the Department of General Services.

(l) Disabled veteran (DV) means a veteran of the military, naval or air service of the United States, including but not limited to, the Philippine Commonwealth Army, the Regular Scouts (“Old Scouts”), and the Special Philippine Scouts (“New Scouts”), who has at least a ten percent (10%) service-connected disability and who is domiciled in the State of California.

(m) Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise or DVBE is as defined in Military and Veterans Code section 999, subdivision (b)(7).

(n) Discontinuance means a gap in certification remediable by restoration of certified status in accordance with section 1896.85.

(o) DVBE Joint Venture means one or more DVBEs that have entered into a written agreement with at least one other business to hold a minimum of fifty-one percent (51%) or more of the joint venture's management, control, and earnings, and to engage in and carry out a venture for which purpose they combine their efforts, property, money, skills and/or knowledge.

(p) Foreign corporation, foreign firm and foreign-based business has the same meaning as Military and Veterans Code section 999, subdivision (b)(8).

(q) Joint bid means one bid submitted by two or more businesses.

(r) Non-disabled veteran (Non-DV) means any individual who is not a Military and Veterans Code section 999, subdivision (b)(7)(A) recognized DVBE.

(s) Office of Small Business and DVBE Services (OSDS) means the organizational section of the Department of General Services, Procurement Division, designated as the California Disabled Veteran Business Program “administering agency” and charged with adopting DVBE practices, policies, guidelines and regulations in accordance with the Military and Veterans and Government Codes.

(t) Principal office is the physical location where the business is headquartered, and where management, direction and control of operations of the business originate and has the same meaning as “home office” referenced in Military and Veterans Code section 999, subdivision (b)(7)(A)(iii). Post office boxes (P.O. Box) and private mailboxes (PMB) are not acceptable replacements for a physical business street address.

(u) Solicitation is defined in State Contracting Manual Volume 2, Chapter 4.B1.0.

(v) Subcontractor means the same as Military and Veterans Code section 999.10, subdivision (c).