Cynthia Whittenberg Linardos

Cynthia Whittenberg Linardos, doing business as Cynthia Whittenberg Linardos MD Msee, is a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Austin, Texas, that provides independent medical case review and disability evaluation consulting services to the Social Security Administration as a prime contractor under multiple regional blanket purchase agreements. The vendor operates entirely within the SSA's disability determination process, conducting detailed reviews of disability claim case files and providing expert medical opinions to inform eligibility decisions for Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income benefits across multiple SSA regions, without subcontract relationships or secondary customer agencies.

Dr. Linardos holds three active BPA vehicles with the SSA: a $17.5 million single-award BPA for specialized physical medicine consulting services supporting the SSA's Center of Disability Program Support in Atlanta, Georgia (extending through December 2026); a $2,001,250 multiple-award BPA for regional medical consultant services in Region 8 (Denver), running through February 2029; and a $1,097,200 single-award BPA for similar Region 8 services through December 2023. Across these vehicles, task orders have ranged from $2,240 for 50 orientation case file reviews to $82,400 for 1,400 independent case assessments. Representative recent work includes a $51,600 BPA call order from April 2026 for independent case reviews in the Mid-West Region, a $68,575 call extending regional medical consulting through June 2026, and a $35,328 call order from July 2023 requiring 384 case reviews over thirteen months.

Customer concentration is total: 100% of the vendor's fourteen awards and the full $21 million combined potential value derive from a single agency, the Social Security Administration, with no geographic or programmatic diversification. All task orders are issued under three named SSA BPA vehicles, with the largest concentration under BPA 28321322AC0840004 (4 task orders, $123 thousand combined potential value) and BPA 28321324AC0840031 (4 task orders, $178 thousand combined potential value). Work is performed in Austin, Texas and Denver, Colorado, with remote case review support delivered to SSA regional offices in Denver and Atlanta.

Activity has declined over the observed window: six awards in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026. The $21 million combined potential value reflects IDV ceiling amounts rather than obligated task-order dollars; only $374 thousand has been obligated to date (2% of ceiling), indicating shallow utilization of the BPA vehicles relative to their capacity. No set-aside designations appear across the portfolio, despite the vendor's woman-owned small business status. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements and does not leverage set-aside vehicles for SSA work.