Susan Grimes Associates Inc.

Susan Grimes Associates Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Washington, D.C., delivers equal employment opportunity investigations, discrimination complaint assessments, and employment law consulting to federal agencies as a prime contractor operating entirely under GSA's Multiple Award Schedule and related blanket purchase agreements. The company competes across both set-aside (Total Small Business) and full-and-open opportunities, with recent activity split between the two categories.

Susan Grimes Associates holds a deeply specialized capability portfolio centered on EEO investigations and human resources compliance support. Concrete recent work includes a $3.5 million single-award BPA with the Department of Commerce Office of the Secretary for EEO investigation and consulting services (awarded August 2025, running through July 2030), a $750 thousand BPA with the National Gallery of Art for discrimination complaint investigations and EEO-related administrative services (awarded October 2024, running through September 2029), a $1.125 million total-small-business BPA with the Department of Defense Education Activity for EEO investigations (awarded March 2022, running through March 2027), and a $750 thousand multiple-award BPA with the Shared Services Center for EEO consulting and investigation services (awarded September 2023, running through August 2028). Current task-order activity under these vehicles ranges from $3,500 to $302 thousand per order, with typical awards in the $5 thousand to $50 thousand range for individual investigations and compliance support. The vendor also holds positions on a $150 thousand multiple-award BPA with the Department of Commerce Office of the Secretary for professional legal and EEO consulting services (September 2022 through August 2026).

Customer concentration is fragmented across 61 distinct federal agencies, but the top tier is anchored by dollar value. The Department of Commerce Office of the Secretary leads both award count (36 awards) and potential value ($12.4 million, approximately 12% of combined potential value), followed at significant distance by the Department of Veterans Affairs Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick ($3.4 million across 5 awards) and the Department of Defense Education Activity ($1.6 million across 10 awards). By award count, the Peace Corps (41 awards) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (36 awards) rank ahead of Commerce, but their combined potential value is substantially lower — $128 thousand and $38 thousand respectively — indicating that Commerce places fewer but much larger orders, while Peace Corps and EEOC place numerous small task orders. The vendor has worked with Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine, National Gallery of Art, Export-Import Bank of the United States, International Development Finance Corporation, and Department of Defense Office of the Secretary, among others.

The vendor's parent-vehicle footprint is dominated by the Federal Supply Schedule GS22F9754H, which has generated 233 task orders totaling $17 million in combined potential value — the primary vehicle for recurring work. The Multiple Award Schedule carries 38 task orders worth $7.9 million combined potential value. Blanket purchase agreements under GS22F9754H (27 task orders, $109 thousand), HHSN276201700009B (24 task orders, $414 thousand), and 95332418A0041 (18 task orders, $116 thousand) represent secondary ordering vehicles. All work is sourced from pre-negotiated GSA contract vehicles; the vendor does not hold direct prime awards outside the schedule framework.

Activity has remained relatively flat in recent years — five to seven awards per year from 2022 through 2026 — with only three awards reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $104 thousand), presenting minimal recompete exposure. The vendor's capability taxonomy is weighted heavily toward NAICS 561611 (Investigation and Personal Background Check Services, 332 awards) and 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services, 58 awards), with supporting secondary categories in human rights and legal services. The GSA labor portfolio lists two active consulting and training roles at $317.72 per hour, requiring only other technical school or certification-level education with three years of experience and no security clearance requirement, reflecting the administrative and professional-services posture of the work. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $12.3 million, representing 12 percent utilization of the $101.5 million combined potential value across 528 prime awards spanning awards from 1991 through September 2026, indicating a vendor with mature, long-standing relationships and substantial unrealized optionality in its contract portfolio.

Susan Grimes Associates, Inc. (SGA), has since 1985 provided expertise to the Federal government in the field of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). Projects undertaken by SGA include the successful investigation of thousands of EEO complaints of discrimination and other specialized factfindings, EEO counseling, mediation, alternative dispute resolution, grievance examination, training, writing acceptance/rejection packages, preparation of final agency decisions or position statements and preparation of settlement agreements. We have served as advisors to EEO offices in all areas of compliance and have rendered opinions on all types of prohibited personnel practices.