Andean Consulting Solutions International LLC

Andean Consulting Solutions International LLC, doing business as Acsi Translations, provides foreign language translation, interpretation, and transcription services to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor operating predominantly under 8(a) set-aside vehicles. The vendor is a woman and minority-owned (Hispanic American) small disadvantaged business certified under the SBA's 8(a) Business Development Program, headquartered in Washington, DC, and operates as a limited liability corporation specializing in multilingual communication solutions across more than 80 languages.

Acsi Translations' customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Food and Drug Administration, which accounts for 26 awards and $28.4 million of the vendor's combined potential value — representing 81% of all recent prime awards. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is the second-largest customer by potential value at $2.7 million (a single large task order for Title 42 interpreter services awarded as an 8(a) Sole Source in July 2023). The Department of the Army Office of the Chief of Staff places the second-highest award count (10 awards, $2 million combined potential value), with the remaining five federal customers — the Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Attorney's Offices, Department of State, GSA Federal Acquisition Service, and Department of Energy — collectively accounting for less than 3% of potential value. The concentration is sharp: FDA work alone represents 81% of potential value and 59% of award count.

Acsi Translations holds three primary parent vehicles. The anchoring contract is a $25 million single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity vehicle with the FDA awarded March 2, 2023, on a Competitive 8(a) basis with performance through March 2028, which has generated approximately 23 task orders collectively valued at $3.9 million to date and now carries 25 task orders with $3.4 million in combined potential value. Task orders under this IDIQ support FDA centers and offices including the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Center for Tobacco Products, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Office of External Affairs, Office of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Assessment, Office of Criminal Investigations, and Office of Compliance, employing firm fixed price, time and materials, and labor-hour pricing structures. The second vehicle is a $786,340 single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Army Office of the Chief of Staff awarded August 15, 2022, on an 8(a) Sole Source basis with performance through August 2027 for transcription services, which carries 6 task orders totaling $144 thousand in combined potential value. The third is a General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule contract valued at $1 million, which supports 3 task orders totaling $3.5 million in combined potential value including the $2.7 million USCIS Title 42 interpreter services delivery order. Recent representative work includes a $896 thousand Competitive 8(a) time-and-materials delivery order from FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research for translation, interpretation, and transcription services (awarded February 2024 with completion through February 2029), a $418 thousand four-year time-and-materials task order for FDA's Office of External Affairs for foreign language translation and interpretation (June 2024), and a $549 thousand time-and-materials delivery order for FDA's Office of Criminal Investigations supporting language translation and transcription (December 2023).

Awards have grown from two in 2022 to a peak of eighteen in 2024, with modest declines to four in 2025 and two in 2026 year-to-date. Six awards carrying combined potential value of $237 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. Acsi Translations operates as a pure prime contractor — 100% of recent awards are prime contracts or IDVs with no subcontract activity. SCI-reported invoicing reached $942 thousand in FY2023 across 5.6 FTEs and $1.9 million in FY2024 across 11.1 FTEs, reflecting roughly doubled federal services capacity year over year. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates median around $65.83/hr, with senior labor pricing through $81.00/hr and entry-level work at $49.13/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average of 13% of total contractor hours, with three named subcontractors reported; the vendor builds most of its delivery capability in-house. Acsi Translations' 8(a) certification expired April 3, 2024, and recompete activity going forward will determine whether the vendor pursues recertification or transitions to full-and-open competition — recent 2024 and 2025 awards show continued use of Competitive 8(a) and 8(a) Sole Source designations, and the source does not indicate whether recertification has been pursued or approved.

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