Schneider Karen Leigh

Schneider Karen Leigh is a sole proprietorship owned by Karen Leigh Schneider that provides vocational expert consulting services to the federal government. As a vocational expert, Ms. Schneider offers specialized skills and expertise to evaluate disability applicants' ability to work.

Through past prime federal contract awards, Schneider Karen Leigh has provided vocational assessment, reporting, and testimony services in support of Social Security Administration (SSA) disability programs and hearings. Specific services entail vocational history review, transferable skills analysis, labor market evaluation, earnings capacity assessment, and responses to interrogatories. Contracts were awarded on a firm fixed price basis via calls against a blanket purchase agreement, with no set-aside designation and performance at Ms. Schneider's office in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio. From 2019 to present, Ms. Schneider received contract calls totaling over $100,000 from the SSA regional office to aid administrative law judges in disability hearings.

The sole active indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract held by Schneider Karen Leigh is a 5-year blanket purchase agreement awarded in 2020 by the SSA for ongoing vocational expert consulting. This single award BPA has no set value but allows Ms. Schneider to compete for future task orders through March 2025. The initial $20,156 call required vocational history review and express reporting concerning disability applicants' ability to work. As prime contractor, Ms. Schneider provides specialized expertise applying vocational assessment methodology to SSA disability programs.