This text of New Hampshire § 21-I:19-k (Products and Services of Disabled Veterans and Military Spouses) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Hampshire primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, whenever products or services of veterans with service-connected disabilities or military spouses are available, the director of procurement and support services may purchase the same at their fair market value in accordance with the following:
I.The director shall determine the fair market price on all suitable products manufactured or services rendered by service-connected disabled veteran-owned businesses or military-spouse owned businesses and offered for sale to the state or any of its agencies. The director shall revise such prices from time to time, in accordance with changing market conditions, and shall adopt such rules regarding specifications, time of delivery, and other relevant matters as are necessary to carry out t
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, whenever products or services of veterans with service-connected disabilities or military spouses are available, the director of procurement and support services may purchase the same at their fair market value in accordance with the following:
I. The director shall determine the fair market price on all suitable products manufactured or services rendered by service-connected disabled veteran-owned businesses or military-spouse owned businesses and offered for sale to the state or any of its agencies. The director shall revise such prices from time to time, in accordance with changing market conditions, and shall adopt such rules regarding specifications, time of delivery, and other relevant matters as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. At the request of the director of procurement and support services, the adjutant general shall assist the director in distributing requests for goods and services of service-connected disabled veterans or military-spouses among approved agencies for veterans and military families.
II. If products or services are available for procurement from any department or agency of the state, and procurement therefrom is required by the provisions of any other section of this chapter or any other law, procurement of such products shall be made in accordance with such other provisions of law.
III. In this section:
(a) "Military spouse-owned business" means a business that is at least 51 percent owned by one or more military spouses, or in the case of a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company or other entity, at least 51 percent of the equity ownership interest is owned by one or more military spouses, and both the management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more military spouses, which is incorporated under the laws of this state, and which manufactures merchandise and provides services within the state and which is approved for such purpose by the director of the division of procurement and support services.
(b) "Service-connected disabled veteran" means a veteran who has an injury, illness, or disability incurred or aggravated while in the line of duty in the armed forces of the United States and is entitled to disability compensation for those injuries, illnesses, or disabilities under the laws administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
(c) "Service-connected disabled veteran-owned business" means a business that is at least 51 percent owned by one or more service-connected disabled veterans or, in the case of a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company or other entity, at least 51 percent of the equity ownership interest in the corporation, partnership, or limited liability company or other entity is owned by one or more individuals who are service-connected disabled veterans and both the management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more individuals who are service-disabled veterans, which is incorporated under the laws of this state, and which manufactures merchandise and provides services within the state and which is approved for such purpose by the director of the division of procurement and support services.