Deaf Access Solutions, Inc. was awarded three blanket purchase agreement calls against its Multiple Award Schedule contract to provide American Sign Language interpretation services to components of the Department of Homeland Security. The first award from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Washington Field Office had a potential value of $148,363.96 to deliver sign language interpretive and virtual interpretation services in Camp Springs, Maryland from January 2022 through August...
The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board awarded AD Astra, Inc. multiple blanket purchase agreements to provide American Sign Language interpretation and communication access real-time translation services. Set aside for total small businesses, the BPAs have a combined value of $105k and leverage the contractor's GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract. Under the terms, AD Astra will furnish ASL interpretation for virtual public meetings through June 2023. This includes a...
The federal contract IDV award, awarded by the Office of the Director, a civilian agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is for the provision of sign language interpreting services. The prime contractor is Access Interpreting Inc., a Deaf and Coda-owned for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Oakton, Virginia. The contract has a ceiling value of $30,941,882.15 and a period of performance through August 31, 2025. It is a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract that...
The Defense Logistics Agency Distribution awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract to Allworld Language Consultants Inc. for sign language interpretation services. Under the IDV, DLA Distribution issued four firm fixed price delivery orders from October 2020 through January 2021, with periods of performance ranging from a single day to just over one year. Places of performance included Fleet, Virginia; Tracy, California; Texarkana, Texas. Collectively the delivery orders had a...
Deaf Services Unlimited, Inc. was awarded a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to provide American Sign Language and Communication Access Real-time Translation services. With a potential value of $500,000 and a period of performance through December 31, 2028, this Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract vehicle enables the agency to issue task orders on a continuing basis for...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has awarded a $19 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to Fis-Das Interpreting Services, a certified small disadvantaged and woman-owned business, to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters, communication access real-time translation (CART), closed captioning, and video remote interpreting services. The IDIQ contract, which was originally competed as an 8(a) set-aside, serves as the primary vehicle through which the...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded an indefinite delivery contract to ASL Interpreting Services, Inc., doing business as Dynamic Communications, for on-demand American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services to support special events. The single-award contract, set aside for total small businesses, has a potential value of $57,443 and a period of performance through January 2024. Under this IDV, the Corps of Engineers has issued several firm fixed price delivery orders to Dynamic...
The U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) has awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call contract to Natural Languages LLC, a minority-owned and woman-owned small business, to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter services. The firm fixed price contract has a ceiling value of $714,285.00 and a period of performance through January 13, 2029. This contract, which is set aside for small businesses, requires Natural Languages LLC to provide ASL interpreter services to...
The Blanket Purchase Agreement establishes a multiple award contract vehicle for sign language interpretation services across various bureaus and offices within the Department of State. Awarded by the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, the BPA facilitates on-demand ordering of interpreting support from a pool of qualified vendors for a period of three years, with a potential value of $30,000. Sign language interpretation is a critical accommodation to ensure effective communication and...
The federal contract IDV award is a Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract from the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Schedule, awarded to Visual Language Professionals LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $500,000.00, provides American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and translation services across over 150 languages to various federal agencies. The contract enables Visual Language Professionals to fulfill task orders for ASL...