Barnett Barry J

Barnett Barry J, a Lexington, Kentucky-based sole proprietorship, provides actuarial and underwriting expert review services for federal crop insurance programs exclusively to the USDA Risk Management Agency as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across all recent awards.

Barnett Barry J holds a single-award BPA (effective October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2028, with a $250,000 ceiling) under which the RMA issues task orders for expert review of crop insurance policies, plans of insurance, and related materials required by the Federal Crop Insurance Act. The vendor's recent award footprint consists entirely of FCIC Board Expert Review task orders issued against that BPA, covering specialized assessments of livestock risk protection programs (cattle, feeder cattle, swine), pulse crop revenue modifications, shellfish insurance program modifications, turfgrass value assessments, and confidential actuarial submissions. Representative work includes a $27,810 labor-hour expert review for turfgrass value assessment (March 2026), a $21,887.50 firm fixed-price FCIC Board Expert Review (December 2024), a $22,400 expert review of shellfish submissions (December 2022, $28,000 ceiling), and a $20,650 Precise Area Revenue Coverage (PARC) evaluation (March 2022). Task orders are priced on both firm fixed-price and labor-hour bases, with individual call ceilings typically ranging from $7,000 to $28,000.

Customer concentration is absolute: the RMA accounts for 100% of the vendor's 17 awards and $1.1 million in combined potential value across the source data window (2018–2026). Activity trajectory shows modest growth through 2023 (five awards that year), with a slight contraction in 2024 (three awards) and 2025 (one award), followed by a resumption of task orders in 2026 (two awards to date). The vendor operates under two parent BPAs: the primary $250,000 RMA BPA (9 task orders, $133 thousand combined value) and an earlier BPA 12FPC123A0031 (6 task orders, $92 thousand combined value). Across the portfolio, $218 thousand has been obligated against $1.1 million in combined potential value (20% obligation rate), indicating most task orders remain partially executed or pending completion. The vendor has no subcontract footprint and competes only as a prime.