Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa

Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa, a certified public accounting firm headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi, provides federal financial audit, compliance assessment, and verification services as a prime contractor almost exclusively (99% of recent awards), with recurring small business set-aside designations across a diversified civilian agency customer base. The firm operates primarily under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and holds single-award blanket purchase agreements with the Social Security Administration and Federal Labor Relations Authority, positioning it as a specialized audit-services vendor for civilian federal agencies rather than a defense or IT-services contractor.

The customer concentration reflects Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa's audit-services footprint. The top five customers by potential value account for 74% of combined award dollars, anchored by the GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($40.4 million in the underlying Multiple Award Schedule vehicle) and the Social Security Administration ($20.4 million across 15 awards), followed by the Department of Labor's Office of Workers Compensation Program ($6.1 million), Department of Labor Office of Inspector General ($5.6 million), and Department of Labor Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management ($3.7 million). By award count, the DOL Office of Inspector General leads with 46 awards but carries only $5.6 million in combined potential value — a pattern indicating high-volume, small-value task orders under a standing relationship. Social Security Administration awards align closely across both rankings, reflecting deeper engagement and larger individual order values. The firm's primary capability focus is financial statement audits, Payment Integrity Information Act audits, Federal Information Security Modernization Act assessments, and consent-based social security number verification compliance reviews, with work concentrated in civilian agencies rather than defense or national security portfolios.

Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa's primary contracting vehicle is the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (47QRAA22D002C), a $40 million multiple-award schedule valid through November 16, 2026, which anchors 102 task orders worth $66.9 million in combined potential value. The firm's labor categories on the GSA Schedule span four tiers — Audit Staff at $97.22 per hour, Audit Senior at $110.14 per hour, Audit Manager at $169.00 per hour, and Director/Partner at $192.80 per hour — all requiring a bachelor's degree with no security clearances required, reflecting the firm's non-classified, commercial-grade audit-services model. Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa also holds a $9.15 million single-award BPA with the Social Security Administration through July 20, 2027, dedicated to year-round compliance reviews and audits for the Consent Based Social Security Number Verification and Electronic Consent Based Social Security Number Verification programs, which has generated over $4.3 million in task orders since award. A newer $1.5 million single-award BPA with the Federal Labor Relations Authority, effective September 5, 2025, through September 4, 2030, provides audit services to the agency's Office of the Inspector General. The Professional Services Schedule carries an additional 19 task orders valued at $2.2 million. Recent representative work includes a $902,662.91 delivery order from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (February 2025) for financial statement audits, charge card program auditing, and Payment Integrity Information Act compliance review through March 2030; a $1.81 million delivery order from the Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (June 2023) for benefit payment verification and assessment report integrity audits through June 2028; a $1.189 million delivery order from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (September 2023) for financial audit services through September 2028; and a $447,182 delivery order from the Federal Maritime Commission (March 2024) for financial and performance audits and FISMA assessments through March 2029.

Service Contract Inventory captures a subset of Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa's federal activity: 26 reportable contracts (23 as prime, 3 as named subcontractor) across FY2022 through FY2024 invoiced approximately $7 million in aggregate ($1.6 million in FY2022, $3.1 million in FY2023, $2.3 million in FY2024) across roughly 6–7 FTEs per fiscal year at the contract level. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $166.42 per hour, with a tenth percentile floor of $108.67 per hour and a ninetieth percentile ceiling of $244.31 per hour, reflecting a senior-labor-weighted audit-services portfolio. The firm self-performs audit work with zero subcontractor engagement on SCI-reportable records, indicating a vertically integrated delivery model. Activity has remained flat across recent years (4 awards in 2024, 11 in 2025, 5 so far in 2026), with eight awards (combined potential value $4 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete exposure. The source carries one subcontract award: Harper Rains Knight & Co Pa delivered financial statement audit services to the Department of Energy, Office of Inspector General, as a subcontractor to KPMG LLP, awarded July 17, 2025. The vendor's award footprint spans 162 total awards with a combined potential value of $103 million and $48.9 million in obligated dollars. Primary NAICS coding reflects 123 awards under Offices of Certified Public Accountants (541211) with support-focused PSC coding dominated by auditing and accounting categories, reinforcing the firm's identity as a specialized federal audit-services vendor competing predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-aside vehicles, though individual task orders commonly carry total small business designations under the underlying IDV vehicles.

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