Cetra Inc.

Cetra Inc., doing business as Cetra Language Solutions, is a Pennsylvania-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation that provides translation, interpretation, and specialized communication support services across more than 70 languages and American Sign Language (ASL) to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The company operates across a highly fragmented customer base without reliance on set-asides — only two of its 175 awards carry set-aside designations (both Total Small Business) — and competes full-and-open across civilian and defense agencies.

Cetra's capability footprint centers on language services. The company delivers document translation, simultaneous and consecutive interpretation (including remote video interpreting), and specialized services for deaf and hard-of-hearing populations. Recent representative work includes a $226,564 delivery order from the Department of the Navy's US Pacific Fleet Forces for short-term language instructional and support services in Fiji (awarded August 2023 under GSA Schedule), a $199,862 firm-fixed-price delivery order from US Pacific Fleet Forces for simultaneous language interpretation services (awarded July 2024, Total Small Business set-aside), a $20,068.12 delivery order from the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Integrated Service Network 15 for language services with a March 2025 performance period under an IDC, and recurring small-dollar BPA calls from the Defense Commissary Agency for on-site ASL interpreting at commissary locations.

Customer concentration across Cetra's footprint is highly dispersed. The top five customers account for only 43% of awards by count. By volume, the Department of the Army leads with 20 awards ($16.5 million combined potential value), followed by the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (2 awards, $9.2 million), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (4 awards, $3.5 million), the Department of the Army Africa Command (2 awards, $3.1 million), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 (3 awards, $2.2 million). The Social Security Administration ranks highest by award count (21 awards) but carries only $1.3 million in combined potential value. This tension reflects Cetra's business model: high-volume, small-dollar transactional work through GSA Schedule vehicles alongside sustained, larger delivery orders for specialized language support.

Cetra places work through two primary federal contract vehicles: the Professional Services Schedule (109 task orders, $8.3 million combined potential value) and the Multiple Award Schedule (27 task orders, $895 thousand combined potential value). The company also holds single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 15 (ceiling $136,750.21, running through February 2028, covering language services and specialized communication support for visual and hearing-impaired populations across the VA system) and with the Defense Commissary Agency (single-award BPA, $80,000 ceiling through June 2028, for on-site and video remote ASL interpreting at DECa headquarters). Army-held IDCs (W911SF09D0005, W911SF04D0013, and related vehicles) account for 17 task orders carrying $1.1 million combined potential value.

Activity has remained modest and volatile — one award in 2022, six in 2023, nine in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026 — with minimal recompete pressure in the next twenty-four months (one award worth $18 thousand reaching ultimate completion). Cetra operates as a pure prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. The vendor's award portfolio of 175 total awards carries $40.2 million in combined potential value with $10.1 million obligated to date, reflecting the transactional and call-order-driven nature of language services work across a distributed federal customer base.

Translation and Interpretation Services - All Languages. Authorized Federal Supply Provider (GSA contract No. 47QRAA21D001H).