Cairns Kristin

Cairns Kristin, doing business as Madame Kristin Cairns, is a woman-owned sole proprietorship based in Paris, France that provides translation, interpretation, foreign language instruction, and cultural advisory services to the Department of State as a prime contractor. The vendor competes in full and open competition — all awards carry no set-aside designation — and operates exclusively under multiple-award blanket purchase agreements issued by the Department of State Bureau of Administration.

All seventy-five awards in the source span two federal customer entities, with the Department of State Bureau of Administration accounting for 71 awards valued at $872 thousand combined potential value and the Department of State itself holding 4 awards at $12 thousand combined potential value. Activity has been volatile: twenty-one awards in 2022, seventeen in 2021, sixteen in 2024, six in 2023, and four in 2025 year-to-date. The combined potential value across all awards stands at $884 thousand, with $234 thousand obligated to date (27% realization rate). Recent awards are small task orders placed against successive annual BPA renewals; representative work includes a $14,880 firm fixed-price BPA call from October 2024 for language services with completion in November 2025, a $9,920 BPA call from October 2025 with completion scheduled for February 2026, and a $13,731 BPA call from October 2024 completing February 2025. All work is performed in Washington, D.C., supporting the Bureau of Administration's diplomatic initiatives in areas such as counterterrorism coordination, global health response, bilateral foreign relations, and high-level international engagements.

The vendor holds positions on five distinct blanket purchase agreements issued under vehicle numbers 190PRL21A0308 through 190PRL25A0308, each labeled "KRISTIN CAIRNS LSA." The most recent BPA (190PRL25A0308) carries a $250 thousand ceiling through September 2026 and has generated 19 task orders valued at $62 thousand combined potential value; the prior-year BPA (190PRL24A0308) held a $150 thousand ceiling through September 2024 with 5 task orders at $18 thousand combined value. Task orders under all BPAs are firm fixed-price calls ranging from $376 to over $13,000 per order, awarded without set-aside restriction. The BPA vehicles are the vendor's sole parent vehicle footprint — there are no GWACs, schedules, or other multi-agency IDIQs in the source. The vendor does not hold prime contract awards outside the BPA structure and has no subcontract presence. Cairns Kristin's federal footprint is entirely concentrated in State Department language services work performed against renewable annual BPAs at the Bureau of Administration, with no diversification into other agencies or contract vehicles.