Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Franchise

Are there stipulations in franchising for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSD). I own and operate a franchise in Austin, Texas. I am a VA certified SDVOSB and supposingly able to bid on Federal and Prime Contractor set-aside business for SDVOSB's as per Executive Oeder #13360. I duly see this as a patriotic gesture by the Government and a service to Disabled Veterans. However, my franchisor is forbidding me to bid on or win SDVOSB set-aside business, they have even put me on credit hold and have had their lawyers send me legal notice of potential franchise termination if I persist in acquiring this business. Additionally, there are Prime contractors to the Government that also want to procure from SDVOSB's, in some case's they are not required to, however, they elect to, which I think is admirable. I am also being forbidden to bid on this business as well. I am not trying to steal business from another franchisee in a region where the SDVOSB set-aside business is going, particurarily if the local franchisee is not a SDVOSB and could have NEVER bid or or won that business. I understand the franchisor wanting to protect a franchisee's assigned territory, I do not understand a franchisor discriminating against an SDVOSB for trying to grow their business and obtaining business that is strickly set-aside for a Service Disabled Veteran. I have to assume that their are Veterans sub-committee's that have to be dealing with these veteran franchise issues. We will soon have thousands of veterans returning from the middle-east and a percentage of them will seek franchising as a way to make a living. Will all these veterans be discriminated against by the franchisor and not be allowed to bid on set-aside business because it is not in their assigned territory? There has to be a mutually agreeable solution to this issue for both the franchisor and franchisee.