Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa

Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa, a Mississippi-based certified public accounting firm, delivers financial audits, compliance assessments, and verification services to civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), operating predominantly under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and single-award blanket purchase agreements designated for small business. The firm competes across full-and-open and total-small-business-set-aside vehicles, with set-asides characterizing roughly half of its prime award footprint.

Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa's customer concentration reflects deep entrenchment in federal financial oversight and compliance work. The top five funding agencies—by award count—account for 53% of recent awards, anchored by the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General (46 awards, $5.6 million combined potential value) and the Social Security Administration (15 awards, $20.3 million). The top-five ranking by potential value shifts significantly toward GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($40.4 million from two awards—the core $40 million Multiple Award Schedule contract and the $1.5 million Federal Labor Relations Authority BPA), followed by SSA ($20.3 million), the Department of Labor Office of Workers Compensation Program ($6.1 million), DOL OIG ($5.6 million), and the Department of Labor Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management ($3.7 million). The divergence between the two rankings reflects the firm's reliance on its parent GSA Schedule vehicle: while OIG drives transaction volume, the GSA MAS contract anchors the largest single dollar commitment. Across 163 awards spanning 29 customer agencies, the firm has accrued $103 million in combined potential value, with $49 million obligated.

The firm's capability portfolio centers on government auditing and compliance services grounded in NAICS 541511 (Offices of Certified Public Accountants). Representative awards include a $1.81 million Department of Labor Office of Workers Compensation Program delivery order through June 2028 for benefit payment verification and assessment report integrity audits under the GSA MAS; a $1.64 million Social Security Administration call order (Option Year 3) for Consent Based Social Security Number Verification and Electronic CBSV compliance reviews, fully funding work through January 2026 under the $9.15 million SSA BPA; a $932,084 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission delivery order for financial statement audits, charge card program auditing, and Payment Integrity Information Act compliance reviews through March 2030; and a $447,182 Federal Maritime Commission delivery order for financial and performance audits including FISMA assessments through March 2029. The firm also holds a $1.5 million Federal Labor Relations Authority BPA (award date September 5, 2025, through September 4, 2030) designated for audit services to the agency's Office of the Inspector General, with five task orders already issued covering financial statement audits, FISMA assessments, privacy and data protection reviews, and Payment Integrity Information Act compliance work.

The GSA Multiple Award Schedule labor portfolio spans four tiers—Audit Staff at $97.22 per hour, Audit Senior at $110.14, Audit Manager at $169.00, and Director/Partner at $192.80—all requiring a bachelor's degree with no security clearances mandated. SCI-reported invoicing across the firm's federal service-contract portfolio reached $9.6 million cumulatively from FY2022 through FY2025, reflecting $2.6 million in FY2025 across 6.2 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $108.67 per hour to a median of $166.42 and a 90th percentile of $244.31, consistent with the published GSA Schedule rates and the firm's positioning as a mid-market audit services provider. The SCI dataset shows FTE growth from 4.9 FTEs in FY2022 to 6.2 in FY2025, with the firm self-performing all reported work—zero average sub-hours share across prime contracts—indicating a vertically integrated, fully-staffed delivery model with no subcontractor reliance.

Activity trajectory shows volatility rather than consistent growth. Awards per year ranged from four in 2022 to eleven in 2025, settling at six in 2026 (as of September). A recompete cliff of seven awards with combined potential value of $4 million faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure concentrated in smaller-dollar task orders. The firm registered as a federal contractor in October 2003 and has maintained continuous prime contracting status across a 29-agency customer base, with the vast majority of work routed through the GSA Schedule and dedicated SSA and FLRA BPAs rather than competed full-and-open solicitations. The single sub-award on record—a financial statement audit sub to KPMG LLP for the Department of Energy Office of Inspector General (award date July 2025)—represents an outlier in an otherwise pure-prime operational posture.

Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa operates without named sub-teaming relationships on its prime work. Its federal footprint is concentrated in civilian compliance and financial audit services to independent agencies and cabinet departments with OIG or financial-management functions, with no direct Department of Defense prime work and minimal sub exposure, positioning it as a specialized auditor for federal financial integrity and information-security compliance rather than a systems integrator or managed-services provider.

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