Karen Krull

Karen Krull is a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship that provides vocational expert consulting services to the federal government. Specifically, Karen Krull serves as a vocational expert to provide testimony regarding the availability of jobs and claimants' ability to perform substantial gainful activity as part of the Social Security Administration's disability determination process.

As a prime contractor, Karen Krull has been awarded multiple firm fixed price blanket purchase agreement calls from the Social Security Administration to provide VHR Express Reporting and ME-VE Express Reporting services in support of the agency's Vocational Expert major program. These services, performed in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, aid SSA disability hearings by providing specialized vocational expert testimony. The calls ranged from $10,885.77 to $18,136.29 in value and were completed between June 2019 and June 2020. No set-aside designation was used.

Additionally, in April 2020 Karen Krull was awarded a 5-year single award blanket purchase agreement from the Social Security Administration with a potential value of $0 to provide ongoing vocational expert consulting services for Region 03 hearing offices under the Vocational Expert major program. As the first task order under this BPA, SSA issued a $15,330.63 firm fixed price call for VHR Express Reporting services to be performed through June 30, 2020 in Allison Park, Pennsylvania. The BPA aims to continue supplying SSA with the vocational expert testimony needed to adjudicate disability claims.