Tichenor & Associates, LLP

Tichenor & Associates, LLP, a Louisville, Kentucky-based service-disabled veteran-owned partnership, operates as a prime contractor delivering audit and financial services to federal agencies through GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicles, the NASA Contract Audit Support Services (CASS) indefinite delivery contract, and a Federal Transit Administration blanket purchase agreement. The firm competes in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations on the majority of its prime awards, though it holds active SDVOSB certifications.

Tichenor & Associates specializes in incurred cost audits, contract audit support, forward pricing rate proposal audits, cost accounting standards compliance reviews, and financial statement audits for federal agencies and their contractors. Recent representative work includes a $5.5 million delivery order from the Executive Office for US Trustees through June 2031 for debtor audit services under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, a $254,654 delivery order from the Defense Contract Audit Agency for independent private auditor services, and multiple task orders under the NASA CASS IDIQ ranging from $26,000 to $114,509 to support the NASA Headquarters Office of Procurement. The firm also holds a $3.5 million single-award BPA with the Federal Transit Administration (through September 2028) and has delivered incurred cost audits to USAID valued at up to $3.6 million.

The vendor's customer base concentrates heavily on compliance and audit oversight functions across civilian agencies. The top five funding agencies by potential value account for 98% of the $202.1 million combined potential across all awards: USAID's Bureau for Management dominates at $109.6 million (7 awards), followed by NASA's Shared Services Center at $56.1 million (22 awards), the Department of Justice Executive Office for US Trustees at $12.3 million (12 awards), GSA Federal Acquisition Service at $10.5 million (2 awards), and the Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration at $8.8 million (7 awards). By award count, the Environmental Protection Agency (60 awards) and Department of Labor Office of Inspector General (42 awards) place above NASA and DCAA, representing lower-dollar individual task orders. This split between volume and dollars reflects the vendor's positioning as a subcontractor to larger audit primes and as a direct provider of task-order audit work across agencies.

Tichenor & Associates holds position on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (29 task orders, $120.2 million combined potential value), the NASA Contract Audit Support Services IDIQ (21 task orders, $1.1 million combined potential value), the GSA Federal Supply Schedule GS23F9824H (34 task orders, $13.5 million combined potential value), and the Federal Transit Administration BPA (15 task orders). The Multiple Award Schedule is the dominant vehicle by dollar value, anchoring the USAID work and the majority of DCAA delivery orders.

Activity has grown year over year from 6 awards in 2022 to 15 in 2025, with 3 awards in 2026 to date. The recompete window over the next twenty-four months exposes 15 awards worth $1.5 million in combined potential value. SCI-reported invoicing on prime contracts totaled $4.1 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($2.3 million in FY2022 and $1.9 million in FY2024), with no reported SCI revenue in FY2023. The FTE trajectory across SCI-reportable work shows 11.4 FTEs in FY2022, 0.0 in FY2023, and 6.5 in FY2024, indicating contract execution variability within the SCI reporting window. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $112.79 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $190.55 per hour and entry-level rates around $65.32 per hour. Tichenor & Associates operates 100% as a prime contractor across its recent award footprint with zero sub-award records, performing all audit delivery in-house rather than layering subcontractors.

The firm's 91-award concentration in NAICS 541512 (Offices of Certified Public Accountants) and 181-award concentration in PSC Support-Management: Auditing reflect a pure-play audit services profile anchored to federal compliance and procurement oversight functions. The vendor operates across 23 distinct customer agencies with strongest penetration in civilian audit oversight, USAID compliance, and NASA contractor audit support — positions held primarily through direct task orders rather than subcontract relationships with larger integrators.