Kirsten Bailey Atkinson

Kirsten Bailey Atkinson, operating as Mediation Consultant, is a woman-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business that provides special education mediation and IEP facilitation services to the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) exclusively as a prime contractor under a single master blanket purchase agreement. Based in Wilmington, North Carolina, the sole proprietorship holds WOSB and economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business certifications and competes under total small business set-asides across its entire federal footprint.

Mediation Consultant's capability portfolio is narrow and specialized: the vendor delivers alternative dispute resolution, individualized education plan (IEP) facilitation, and special education conflict resolution exclusively to military-connected schools within the DoDEA system. Representative work includes a $5,340 IEP facilitation task order at Stuttgart Elementary School in Wilmington, North Carolina (awarded May 8, 2025, completing May 7, 2026); a $4,750 mediation services call for Kaiserslautern Elementary School in Kaiserslautern, Germany (awarded April 8, 2026, completing April 9, 2027); a $5,405 special education mediation services call (awarded January 4, 2024, completing January 3, 2025); and a $5,360 IEP facilitation task order at Stugart High School in Wilmington, North Carolina (awarded October 17, 2023, completing October 16, 2024). Work is performed at military installations and schools both domestically and overseas, with administrative location in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Customer concentration is absolute: DoDEA funds 16 of 16 awards (100%) with $351 thousand combined potential value. The vendor operates exclusively under a single Blanket Purchase Agreement (HE125421A8000) established April 1, 2021, with a $250 thousand ceiling, against which six task orders have been placed. Awards carry small dollar values, ranging from $4,100 to $7,400 per call, and are spaced episodically across the five-year master agreement term. Activity is sparse — one award placed in each of 2024, 2025, and 2026 to date — with only one award (combined potential value $8 thousand) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $96 thousand, representing 27 percent of combined potential value; the remaining 73 percent remains unobligated against the master agreement ceiling. Mediation Consultant has not subcontracted work to other vendors and does not serve as a subcontractor itself.