Burke Court Reporting LLC

Burke Court Reporting LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Wayne, New Jersey, provides on-site and virtual court reporting, transcription, and legal documentation services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor across a diversified customer base of 35 agencies. Burke Court Reporting competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, though roughly half of recent awards carry no set-aside designation, and operates at scale with 268 prime awards totaling $7.5 million in combined potential value since 1993.

The National Labor Relations Board anchors Burke Court Reporting's customer concentration by dollar value, with 42 awards worth $5.2 million combined potential value—88% of the company's total potential value—under a $2.297 million purchase order running through September 2027 that calls for court reporting, transcription, and virtual hearing services supporting approximately 400–425 hearings and 50 depositions annually across 34 NLRB regions and Puerto Rico. The Merit Systems Protection Board represents the second-largest customer by award count (71 awards) but the third by dollar value ($254 thousand), reflecting transactional work under recurring blanket purchase agreements. The Internal Revenue Service ranks third in award count (23 awards, $38 thousand combined potential value) with individual delivery orders and purchase orders for virtual court reporting and transcription services, while the Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor and the Social Security Administration round out the top five. The Revenue concentrated in the NLRB contract—approximately 70% of total potential value from a single customer—creates material recompete risk; three awards (combined potential value $2.3 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, though most of that exposure sits within the NLRB contract's base-plus-option structure through September 2027.

Burke Court Reporting holds positions on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and two single-award blanket purchase agreements with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—a $200 thousand BPA awarded September 30, 2025 (completion September 29, 2028) and a predecessor $230 thousand BPA (September 2021–September 2022)—along with recurring BPAs with the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Social Security Administration. Work across these vehicles covers court reporting, transcription, and virtual hearing services under PSC support categories (163 awards under Administrative Court Reporting, 53 under Transcription, and 16 under Stenographic) and NAICS 541612 (Court Reporting and Stenotype Services), the vendor's primary classification.

Service Contract Inventory data spanning FY2023–FY2024 captures a single reportable prime contract—the NLRB purchase order—invoicing $345 thousand in FY2024 across 1.1 FTEs with no subcontractor hours reported; the vendor delivers work directly rather than through teaming arrangements. GSA Schedule labor rates for Burke Court Reporting span court reporter and simultaneous captioner roles at hourly rates from $48.36 per hour (per-hour billing) through $342.57 (full-day rate), all requiring high school education and five years of experience with no security clearances. The median government-paid rate on the NLRB contract, the largest work in SCI, runs $156.73 per hour.

Activity has grown unevenly—four awards in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, twelve in 2025, and five through July 2026—with most growth driven by incremental task orders under existing IDVs rather than new customer acquisition. The company's footprint is deeply specialized: court reporting and transcription work across administrative, legal, and regulatory proceedings, with no product sales, engineering services, or defense-unique capabilities in the award record. All work is performed at the Wayne, New Jersey headquarters or at customer sites nationwide.

Court reporting and trasncription services for hearings, meetings, depositions, conferences and focus groups throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States.

As well as transcription through out the CONUS.