Baloul, Azhari

Baloul, Azhari, a minority-owned sole proprietorship based in Franconia, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor providing language services and professional training to the Department of State, competing exclusively full-and-open with no set-aside designations. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business with a narrow federal customer base and low transaction volumes — all 36 recent awards cluster under two Department of State entities.

The company's capability portfolio centers on translation, interpretation, and language support services alongside specialized training delivery. Representative work includes a $13,300 BPA call from the State Department's Bureau of Administration for language services (awarded October 2024, performance through November 2025), a $10,500 language services BPA call from the State Department proper (awarded October 2025, performance through August 2026), a $12,824 K-9 training course delivery in Jordan (awarded October 2021, completed July 2022), and a $9,750 contract supporting the "Empowering Youth Through Workforce" program (awarded October 2021, completed October 2022). A $7,540 advanced border guard training contract and a $9,121 civil and human rights advocacy services contract round out the visible scope. Performance occurs primarily in Washington, DC, with some training delivery abroad.

Customer concentration is absolute: the Bureau of Administration accounts for 35 of 36 awards and $891 thousand of the $901 thousand combined potential value. The State Department proper issued one award. This near-monolithic customer relationship creates significant business-continuity risk — all pipeline and recompete activity depends on Bureau of Administration contract renewals.

Baloul, Azhari holds five rotating multiple-award BPA vehicles with the Bureau of Administration. The current active vehicle (190PRL25A0198) carries a $250 thousand ceiling through September 2026 and has generated six task orders worth $43 thousand combined potential value. Prior vehicles (covering 2021–2024) carried $100 thousand to $150 thousand ceilings and hosted 18 additional task orders. Only one award (the $10,500 State Department language services call) reaches ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in that window — though the vendor's entire revenue stream depends on renewal of Bureau of Administration BPA vehicles.

Activity is flat to declining: five awards in 2021, six in 2022, four in 2023, six in 2024, and one in 2025 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 36 awards totals $901 thousand, with $251 thousand (28%) obligated to date, reflecting small task-order sizing typical of language services procurement. The vendor operates as 100% prime with no visible subcontract footprint.