Mcdowell Michael

Mcdowell Michael is a sole-proprietor arbitrator and legal services provider in Wexford, Pennsylvania, operating as a prime contractor on small-value federal purchase orders for arbitration services, with no subcontract footprint. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime and competes under full-and-open and total small business set-aside designations, with most recent work falling under NAICS 541990 (All Other Legal Services) and PSC Support–Professional: Legal.

The vendor's customer base is shallow and episodic. Five agencies account for 70% of recent awards: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (5 awards, $19 thousand combined potential value), the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (5 awards, $15 thousand), the Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration (2 awards, $12 thousand), the Department of Defense Education Activity (1 award, $10 thousand), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Benefits Administration Houston Regional Benefit Office (1 award, $4 thousand). Across the vendor's twenty-award footprint spanning 2005 to present, EEOC and CBP dominate both volume and dollars; the two rankings track identically.

Recent representative work includes a $9,625 total small business set-aside purchase order from DOD Education Activity awarded March 30, 2026, for arbitration services under FMCS reference 260209-03458, performance in McKnight, Pennsylvania, completion by March 29, 2027; a $7,000 full-and-open purchase order from MSHA awarded July 21, 2025, for arbitration services, completion by March 31, 2026; and a $5,225 full-and-open purchase order from MSHA awarded February 6, 2025, for arbitrator services to resolve an agency–employee dispute in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, completion by May 18, 2025. All twenty awards across the source window total $104 thousand in combined potential value, fully obligated. Activity is sparse and irregular — two awards in 2016, one in 2018, one in 2019, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — with only one award ($10 thousand) facing completion inside the next twenty-four months.