Trost, Sandra

Sandra Trost, doing business as Sandra Trost & Associates, is a sole proprietorship woman-owned small business that provides vocational expert consulting services to the federal government. As a vocational expert, Trost offers impartial assessments to determine disability claimants' ability to perform past work or adjust to other employment.

Through prime federal contract awards, Trost has provided VHR express reporting services to support the Social Security Administration's disability programs. Specifically, Trost delivered these services for the SSA's Region 9 Hearing Office in Los Angeles, California over the past year, with call orders issued against a blanket purchase agreement. The potential value of the calls ranged from $19,853 to $24,042, and all included firm fixed price terms without any small business set asides.

Trost holds a single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Social Security Administration to supply vocational expert consulting services for disability hearings before administrative law judges. The open-ended agreement runs through March 2025 with no defined ceiling value. Under its provisions, the SSA issued an initial $22,312 call for VHR express reporting services in the Los Angeles area to be completed by the end of June 2020. The original solicitation for the blanket purchase agreement sought these specialized evaluation services on a total small business set-aside basis to assist the SSA's disability programs.