Mcbride, Lock & Associates, LLC

Mcbride, Lock & Associates, LLC, a Kansas City, Missouri-based limited liability partnership and self-certified small disadvantaged business, delivers specialized accounting, auditing, and federal financial compliance services to civilian agencies exclusively as a prime contractor under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The firm competes across both set-aside (Total Small Business) and full-and-open vehicles, with a portfolio skewed heavily toward audit and financial review work under NAICS 541211 (Offices of Certified Public Accountants) and PSC Support-Management: Auditing.

The vendor's customer base is fragmented across 22 federal agencies, with the top five accounting for 63% of awards by count but a different top-five ranking by dollar value. By award count, the Environmental Protection Agency (41 awards) and the National Science Foundation (26 awards) dominate; by potential value, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($20.2 million across 2 awards), NSF's Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management ($14 million across 19 awards), and NSF's Division of Institution and Award Support ($9.9 million across 2 awards) lead. The Department of Justice's Executive Office for U.S. Trustees ($9.4 million across 15 awards) and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission ($6.9 million across 12 awards) round out the material customer set. This divergence — many small EPA awards versus larger NSF and DOJ task orders — reflects a mixed portfolio of shorter-duration compliance audits and longer-term blanket purchase agreements.

Mcbride holds two significant BPA vehicles anchoring most recent work: a $4 million single-award NSF BPA for SBIR/STTR Phase II pre-award financial and administrative reviews (ultimate completion December 2026, four task orders issued from December 2021 through March 2025 ranging $399,900 to $544,058 each) and a $2.72 million multiple-award Election Assistance Commission BPA for Help America Vote Act interest earned audits and general auditing services (effective through September 2029, with Department of the Interior added as an ordering agency in a recent modification). Under the GSA Federal Supply Schedule (GS23F8188H), the vendor places 75 task orders valued at $27.8 million combined potential value and 28 task orders on the Multiple Award Schedule valued at $19.4 million combined potential value. Representative recent work includes a $655 thousand April 2026 NSF BPA call for SBIR/STTR Phase II proposal review (Total Small Business set-aside), a $177 thousand September 2025 delivery order to the Office of Inspector General for audit support (Total Small Business set-aside), a $435 thousand March 2025 NSF call for pre-award financial reviews, a $210 thousand September 2021 delivery order to the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees for Chapter 12 Standing Trustee Audits across six regions, and recurring Election Assistance Commission work ranging $123 thousand to $214 thousand per task order.

GSA Schedule labor categories span junior auditor ($71.76 per hour, bachelor's, no experience required) through partner level ($170.29 per hour, bachelor's, 8 years experience), with manager and information specialist roles in between; all positions require bachelor's education and no security clearance. Recent activity shows modest ordering velocity — one to three awards per year since 2022 — with only one award (the April 2026 NSF call, $655 thousand) facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), with no subcontract footprint in the source data.

auditing, accounting, financial services