Elzein, Isam Eldin

Elzein, Isam Eldin (operating as Zeinco International Co and Zeinco International Inc.), a Black American-owned, minority-owned sole proprietorship based in Bethesda, Maryland, provides translation, interpretation, cultural advising, and language subject matter expertise to the Department of State as a prime contractor under blanket purchase agreements, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across all 45 recent awards.

Zeinco's customer footprint is entirely concentrated with the Department of State, which accounts for 96% of awards and 99% of combined potential value across the vendor's recent portfolio. The Department of State Bureau of Administration dominates this concentration, anchoring 39 awards totaling approximately $1 million in combined potential value; three additional awards route through the Department of State proper ($24 thousand combined value), and one call flows through the Department of State Office of Language Services. Work is performed in Washington, D.C. and supports State Department operations, foreign policy engagements, international visitor programs, cultural exchanges, and diplomatic security cooperation objectives. Representative recent awards include a $15,500 firm-fixed-price BPA call from the Bureau of Administration awarded October 1, 2025 for general language services, an $8,300 call awarded the same date for language services supporting international engagement, and a $14,925 call awarded October 1, 2024 for translation, interpretation, and cultural advising supporting diplomatic and programmatic needs.

Zeinco holds positions on five active State Department language-services blanket purchase agreements, the largest being BPA 190PRL23A0014 with 7 task orders carrying $65 thousand in combined potential value, followed by BPA 190PRL25A0014 (5 task orders, $53 thousand), BPA 190PRL24A0014 (5 task orders, $52 thousand), BPA 190PRL22A0014 (4 task orders, $38 thousand), and BPA 190PRL21A0014 (5 task orders, $18 thousand). The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no documented subcontract footprint. Activity has been intermittent — five awards in 2021, nine in 2022, declining to three in both 2024 and 2025 — with combined dollars obligated running at approximately 38% of combined potential value. All 45 awards fall under NAICS translation and interpretation services and PSC support-administrative translation and interpreting, yielding a service portfolio entirely specialized to language capabilities rather than diversified federal IT, engineering, or logistics services.