James Cowart

James Cowart is a sole proprietorship owned by James Cowart that does business as Cowart & Associates, a for-profit veteran-owned organization located in Mobile, Alabama. Cowart & Associates provides vocational rehabilitation reporting and analysis services to the Social Security Administration (SSA) to assist in evaluating disability claims.

Through prime federal contract awards, Cowart & Associates has provided vocational expert consulting services such as vocational rehabilitation reporting and analysis to administrative law judges under the SSA's Vocational Expert major program. Specific services have included VHR Express Reporting to support the evaluation of disability claims on behalf of the SSA. Past awards have consisted of firm fixed price blanket purchase agreement calls issued on a quarterly basis from June 2019 through June 2020, ranging from $10,118 to $35,641 in potential value. No set-aside designations were used.

Cowart & Associates holds a single-award blanket purchase agreement with the SSA to provide ongoing vocational expert consulting services in support of hearings before administrative law judges within Region 04 hearing offices. The BPA has a period of performance through March 31, 2025 and potential value of $0. Under this BPA, the SSA issued a $10,119 firm fixed price call to Cowart & Associates for VHR Express Reporting services through June 30, 2020 to assist in assessing disability claims and claimants' ability to work. The original BPA solicitation was set aside for total small businesses.