Inc. J.anice L. Bending, Phd

Inc. J.anice L. Bending, Phd is a for profit, woman owned small business that provides vocational expert consulting services to the federal government. As a prime contractor, the company supplies expert testimony and vocational assessments under the Social Security Administration's disability programs to evaluate claimants' ability to work.

Through prime federal contract awards, Inc. J.anice L. Bending, Phd has provided vocational expert reporting services, including testimony and reports, to assist the Social Security Administration in determining disability applicants' capacity for substantial gainful activity based on vocational factors. The contract awards, issued as calls against the agency's Vocational Health Reporting Express blanket purchase agreement vehicle, required vocational evaluations of claimants in North Carolina through 2020 to aid administrative law judges in disability hearings. No major subcontractors or set aside designations were used.

Inc. J.anice L. Bending, Phd also holds a prime blanket purchase agreement with the Social Security Administration, awarded April 2020, to provide ongoing vocational expert consulting services for the agency's Region 04 hearing offices. The total small business set-aside agreement allows the Social Security Administration to efficiently obtain on-call vocational assessments on a short-term basis through March 2025 to fulfill its responsibility to thoroughly review applicants' ability to work under the Vocational Guidelines. Soon after BPA award, the agency issued a $16,763 firm fixed price call for vocational expert reporting to be performed in North Carolina through June 2020.