Keating Gerald

Keating Gerald is a for-profit organization that provides vocational expert consulting services to the federal government. Through prime federal contract awards and blanket purchase agreements with the Social Security Administration (SSA), Keating Gerald supplies expert opinions to administrative law judges on disability claimants' ability to perform past work or adjust to other employment.

Specifically, Keating Gerald has been awarded multiple firm-fixed-price call contracts under the SSA's Vocational Expert blanket purchase agreement vehicle to provide VHR Express Reporting and ME-VE Express Reporting services in support of the agency's disability hearings. The call contracts, ranging from $13,891 to $31,804, required the completion of express reporting on vocational assessments by specified completion dates in 2019 and 2020. All contracts were awarded on a no set-aside basis.

Additionally, in March 2020 Keating Gerald was awarded a 5-year single-award blanket purchase agreement by the SSA to provide ongoing vocational expert consulting services for Region 03 hearing offices. The agreement has a potential value of $0 and enables the SSA to issue task orders through March 2025. Under this IDV, one firm-fixed-price call contract worth $25,023 was issued to Keating Gerald for VHR Express Reporting services through June 2020. The original solicitation was set aside for small businesses. Through the blanket purchase agreement structure, Keating Gerald supplies flexible access to specialized vocational consultant services in support of the SSA's disability claim adjudication hearings nationwide.