Fact Sheet No. VA is in the process of converting all construction planning documents. Either hard metric measurements, dual measurements, or a clause indicating VA's acceptance of a product made to metric measurements now appear in all new or revised specifications and approximately 100 Commercial Item Descriptions. The clause permits VA to accept metric products when they fall within the tolerances specified in the standardization document.
SI is now the standard language of trade, science, and technology.
This outreach effort is a mechanism to obtain feedback of the small business community's understanding of the metric system. This office also interfaces with all of the acquisition offices of the Department to ascertain the impact of metrication on small businesses and on all VA major programs.