Carol Wolter Interpreting Services LLC

Carol Wolter Interpreting Services LLC, a woman-owned small business based in McLean, Virginia, provides French-English interpretation and translation services to the Department of State as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open without set-aside designations across its federal footprint. The company operates as a limited liability corporation and holds no federal contract vehicles or IDVs; all work flows through task orders issued under Department of State BPAs.

The vendor's customer base is singularly concentrated. The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 43 of 44 recent awards (100% coverage by both award count and combined potential value), with a single additional State Department award bringing combined potential value to $728 thousand across the portfolio. This concentration reflects a specialized, high-frequency task-order model rather than diversified customer relationships. The company's footprint centers entirely on language services procured through multiple-award BPAs held by the Bureau of Administration, with performance occurring in Washington, D.C.

Carol Wolter Interpreting Services holds positions on five successive State Department BPAs, each renewed annually on October 1. The current vehicle (Blanket Purchase Agreement 190PRL25A0469) carries a $250 thousand ceiling through September 30, 2026 and generated nine task orders worth $9 thousand in combined potential value since award on October 1, 2024. The prior-year vehicle (190PRL24A0469) supported six task orders for $10 thousand; the 2023 vehicle (190PRL23A0469) generated eleven task orders for $14 thousand; and the 2022 vehicle (190PRL22A0469) issued eight task orders for $8 thousand. Task order values are typically sub-$3 thousand, with firm fixed-price terms and completion dates ranging from one to three months. Representative work includes a $2,424 BPA call for French-English interpretation supporting diplomatic and international engagement operations (October 2024–October 2025), a $3,200 BPA call under the prior vehicle (October 2023–July 2024), and historical support for State Department programs including the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement, and the Agriculture Innovation Mission.

Activity has remained flat to declining over the past five years, with twelve awards in 2022 (peak), declining to nine in 2024 and one award recorded in 2025 year-to-date. Combined dollars obligated represent only 11% of combined potential value across all awards, indicating light utilization against the BPA ceilings. The vendor operates as a sole proprietor without subcontractors and competes in the Translation and Interpretation Services NAICS category under the Support—Administrative: Translation and Interpreting PSC.