Wael M Abdelsattar

Wael M Abdelsattar, a minority-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Sterling, Virginia, provides translation, interpretation, and foreign language support services to the Department of State as a prime contractor on a full-and-open (no set-aside) basis. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor—113 awards across all recent activity carry no subcontract role—and competes across multiple-award blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) issued by the Department of State Bureau of Administration, with individual task orders ranging from under $600 to $250,000 in ceiling value.

The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 83 of 113 recent awards (79% by count) and $1.5 million of $1.7 million combined potential value (92% of total dollars). Wael M Abdelsattar holds an established seat on four rolling annual language-services BPA vehicles: the current fiscal 2025 BPA (ceiling $250,000, running through September 30, 2025) anchors the portfolio, with prior-year vehicles (fiscal 2023, 2024) carrying $150,000 ceilings each and a fiscal 2022 vehicle at $100,000. The vendor also holds a Basic Ordering Agreement with DOJ for limited language support (seven task orders, $44 thousand combined value). All work is priced on a firm fixed-price basis with performance in Washington, D.C., and no set-aside designations apply across the entire footprint.

Activity has been volatile but recently contracted. Awards per year peaked at 24 in 2023, declined to 11 in 2024, and dropped to 4 in 2025 year-to-date—a significant trajectory shift that signals either reduced bureau demand or competitive loss of task-order share on the standing BPAs. The combined potential value across all 113 awards is $1.7 million, with $757 thousand obligated (45% realization rate), reflecting the small-dollar, call-order nature of the work. Six BPA vehicles represent the entire prime footprint: three State Department language-services BPAs (fiscal 2022–2025) and the DOJ ordering agreement account for 73 task orders across roughly $635 thousand in potential value. The remaining 40 awards span four earlier BPA vehicles (one dating to fiscal 2021, which has since expired) and include scattered non-language work such as countering misinformation, international visit support, K-9 training in the Maldives, and regional intelligence symposium services—scope diversification that did not sustain into current fiscal years.

Capability framing is narrow and concrete: the vendor delivers on-demand interpretation and translation to support State Department diplomatic, international exchange, and administrative programs, with performance concentrated in Washington, D.C. Representative awards include fourteen task orders under the fiscal 2024 BPA (ultimate completion October 18, 2025, $14,925 ceiling) for general language services, a $15,500 task order (October 1, 2025, ultimate completion June 13, 2026) also for language services under the current fiscal 2025 BPA, and a $9,750 call (October 1, 2022, completed November 19, 2022) for countering misinformation and disinformation services. No subcontractors appear in the record; the vendor performs all work directly. The 113-award footprint spans 20 years (first award October 1, 2005), indicating long-standing bureau relationship, but the recent decline in annual task-order volume and the absence of growth beyond the annual BPA ceiling reset suggest the vendor faces either reduced state department demand, competitive pressure from other language-services contractors on the same vehicles, or both. No recompete cliff is signaled in the source; BPA vehicles roll over annually on October 1.