Debra A Sprague

Debra A Sprague, a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Cincinnati, Ohio, provides court reporting and verbatim transcription services to the Internal Revenue Service as a prime contractor on purchase orders, with 1,170 total federal awards concentrated almost exclusively within a single customer agency.

Sprague is a certified court reporter registered in the System for Award Management since May 2002. Her business structure is a for-profit sole proprietorship designated as a woman-owned small business. The vendor operates without reliance on subcontractors — all 1,170 awards are prime contracts. Over two decades, she has built a sustained contractual relationship with the IRS, receiving more than 200 purchase orders since the earliest records in the source data (2003). Across recent years, activity has remained steady: 55 awards in 2022, 64 in 2023, 58 in 2024, 51 in 2025, and 12 in the first half of 2026.

Customer concentration is near-total. The Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service accounts for 1,097 awards (94% of all awards) and the full combined potential value of $257 thousand. No other federal agency appears in her award footprint. The IRS procures court reporting services for depositions, arbitrations, oral replies, employee relations hearings, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proceedings, and administrative interviews across multiple IRS divisions — Criminal Investigation, Wage & Investments, Employee Relations, Taxpayer Advocate Service, and the Taxpayer Focused Support Division — and geographic locations including Ohio, Kentucky, California, New York, Texas, and elsewhere.

The vendor places work under two blanket purchase agreements: BPA TIRSE06S00001 (180 task orders) and BPA TIRSE09S00003 (144 task orders, $91 thousand combined potential value). Individual purchase orders range from $150 to $7,063, with most falling in the $150–$600 range. Contract types are predominantly firm fixed-price and time-and-materials purchase orders for discrete proceedings or short-term transcription batches. The combined potential value across all awards ($257 thousand) is lower than combined obligated dollars ($339 thousand), indicating that final invoiced amounts frequently exceed initial estimates on these task-based engagements.

NAICS classification is heavily concentrated in Court Reporting and Stenotype Services (1,151 awards), with minor coding variance for legal and administrative support services. PSC coding aligns similarly, with Support-Administrative: Court Reporting dominating at 1,155 awards.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: only one award with ultimate completion date in that window carries $225 potential value. Activity trajectory shows no growth signal — recent year volumes are lower than 2023 peak (64 awards) and have not recovered to earlier highs. This narrow customer base, single product line, and recurring small-dollar task order model create structural dependency on IRS utilization patterns and BPA renewal cycles.