3Play Media, Inc.

3Play Media, Inc., a for-profit media accessibility services vendor based in Boston, Massachusetts, operates as a prime contractor providing closed captioning, audio description, transcription, and translation services to civilian federal agencies on a full-and-open (non-set-aside) basis. The company competes entirely as a prime contractor—100% of its recent awards are prime contracts or IDVs with no subcontractor activity—and has not pursued small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

3Play Media's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on media accessibility remediation. Recent representative work includes a $147,459 digital transcription services delivery order from the Smithsonian Institution (awarded July 2023), a $37,908 transcription and captioning order for the Archives of American Art (August 2025), a $47,760 closed captioning and audio description contract supporting the National Museum of African American History and Culture (September 2023), and video captioning work under the Bureau of Land Management's $100,000 professional training BPA. The vendor's work spans WCAG Level AA video accessibility remediation, sound transcription, caption editing, and image remediation services across museum collections, training programs, and online content.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Smithsonian Institution, which accounts for 13 awards and $450 thousand in combined potential value—representing the vast majority of 3Play Media's award activity by count. The top five customer agencies account for 74% of recent awards by count. By dollar value, however, the profile shifts dramatically: a single GSA Federal Acquisition Service award carries $16 million in combined potential value, representing 94% of the vendor's total contract ceiling. This single outlier is the $16 million GSA contract; the Smithsonian's 13 awards together represent only $450 thousand. The Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service (3 awards, $178 thousand), National Gallery of Art (1 award, $150 thousand), and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management National Office (2 awards, $109 thousand) round out the active customer set. The vendor has also placed work with the Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration, Department of Justice, and Fish and Wildlife Service.

3Play Media holds three parent vehicles: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (7 task orders, $128 thousand combined potential value), a Smithsonian Indefinite Delivery Contract 33330224DF0010362 (6 task orders, $233 thousand combined potential value), and a Bureau of Land Management Blanket Purchase Agreement for professional training services. The Smithsonian IDC is a single-award contract with a nominal $1 ceiling value, structured to support remediation and media accessibility services across Smithsonian programming through delivery orders. Work is performed primarily in Washington, DC, with one IDC scope noting Phoenix as a place of performance.

Activity has remained modest and inconsistent—1 award in 2022, a spike to 5 awards in 2023, declining to 4 awards in both 2024 and 2025, with 1 award in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 31 prime awards totals $17.1 million, with only $701 thousand obligated to date (4% execution rate). The vendor's federal contracting footprint spans from 2010 onward but shows no sustained growth trajectory and concentrates heavily in museum and cultural institution accessibility work rather than broader federal IT or defense contracting. Service Contract Inventory data captures minimal 3Play Media activity: 8 SCI records across FY2022–FY2024, all as a named subcontractor rather than prime (0.1 FTEs in FY2022, 0.4 FTEs in FY2024), reflecting the vendor's positioning outside high-value, multi-year federal service contracts above the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold.