Berkeley Research Group, LLC

Berkeley Research Group LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Emeryville, California, operates as a prime contractor delivering expert witness services, litigation support, and specialized financial consulting to federal agencies on a fully competitive, non-set-aside basis across 32 distinct customer organizations.

The vendor's federal footprint concentrates heavily in the Department of Justice ecosystem—U.S. Attorney's Offices alone account for 146 awards (78% of award count coverage) valued at $10.5 million combined potential value, followed by the Civil Division (22 awards, $10 million), Environment and Natural Resources Division (13 awards, $6.6 million), and Antitrust Division engagement. Outside DOJ, the Securities and Exchange Commission (28 awards, $9.1 million), Federal Trade Commission (6 awards, $20.9 million), and Department of Housing and Urban Development Housing Office of Healthcare Programs (8 awards, $22 million) anchor secondary concentration. The dollar ranking diverges from award count: HUD and FTC rank first and second by potential value, driven by multi-million-dollar indefinite delivery contracts, while DOJ-USAOs dominates by sheer volume of individual purchase orders.

Berkeley Research Group competes exclusively as a prime contractor—97% of its 279 recent awards carry prime status; only 8 subcontracts are named, all to The Mitre Corporation and Identity Theft Guard Solutions on healthcare innovation work. The vendor builds its own delivery teams rather than relying on subcontractors. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, 0% of contractor hours flow through subcontractors. SCI-reported invoicing reached $28.8 million across FY2022–FY2025, with labor scaling from 1.5 FTEs in FY2022 to 19.1 FTEs in FY2024 before contracting to 8.0 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ranged from $244.62/hr at the 10th percentile to $782.84/hr at the 90th percentile, reflecting senior consultant-to-director-level positioning; median rates ran $549.94/hr.

The vendor's service portfolio centers on expert witness testimony, forensic financial analysis, litigation support, and specialized consulting across disputes, investigations, and financial advisory domains. Representative work includes a $7.4 million Antitrust Division definitive contract (May 2023, labor-hour basis through June 2025) for expert witness services; a $12.3 million Federal Trade Commission definitive contract (April 2023, extending through March 2028) for expert services across the Commission's enforcement mission, which invoiced $7.3 million through FY2025; a $3.999 million DOJ Civil Division purchase order (January 2023, time-and-materials through December 2026) for expert witness services, which invoiced $249 thousand in FY2023, $1.2 million in FY2024, and $956 thousand in FY2025; and a $5.37 million U.S. Attorney's Offices purchase order (January 2023, time-and-materials through January 2024) for expert witness services. Beyond DOJ, HUD's Housing Office of Healthcare Programs has issued multiple delivery orders for Hospital Assessment Consulting Services under a $8.74 million single-award IDC established in June 2021 and extended through June 2026, with recent orders carrying $758,196 (July 2025) and $686,611 (May 2024) ceilings.

Berkeley Research Group holds three active indefinite delivery contracts: a $9.726 million single-award HUD Housing Office of Healthcare Programs contract (September 2026, extending through June 2031) for hospital assessment consulting under NAICS 541611; a $9.75 million multiple-award Department of Transportation/Build America Bureau contract (May 2024, through May 2029) for financial advisory services supporting infrastructure finance, with a $20,000 minimum-guarantee delivery order issued July 2024; and a $7.5 million single-award International Development Finance Corporation contract (December 2023, through December 2028) for direct equity consulting services to the Office of Equity & Investment Funds. The vendor also places task orders under GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicles and operates on the VA Technology Acquisition Center MAS contract, with a $215,412 delivery order for expert legal support (October 2024, through September 2026).

Activity has remained steady over the past five years—28 awards in 2022, climbing to 46 in 2023, then moderating to 24 in 2024 before rising to 34 in 2025 and 31 through September 2026. Sixty-one awards carrying combined potential value of $27.2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting significant recompete exposure. The vendor's work classifies predominantly under PSC "Support–Professional: Expert Witness" (212 awards) and NAICS 541690 (All Other Legal Services; 118 awards), with secondary volume in NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management Consulting; 58 awards) driven by HUD hospital assessment work. GSA Schedule labor rates span 16 categories from Administrative Assistant ($122.99/hr) through Financial Services Director ($489.46/hr), with education requirements ranging from high school through master's degree; no security clearances are offered.

Berkeley Research Group operates with minimal subcontractor engagement and no SBA set-aside certifications. The firm competes on open competition across all award categories and has maintained continuous federal registration since December 2010. Its federal customer base concentrates on litigation, enforcement, and regulatory agencies—a positioning that insulates much of its volume from defense and intelligence procurement pipelines.