Field, Christopher L.

Field, Christopher L., doing business as Christopher Field Japanese Interpreting, is a sole proprietor providing Japanese language interpretation and translation services to the federal government as a prime contractor on a full-and-open (non-set-aside) basis. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Wayland, Massachusetts, operating under NAICS Translation and Interpretation Services with all work performed in Washington, D.C. on a firm fixed-price basis.

Field's entire customer footprint concentrates with the Department of State Bureau of Administration, which accounts for 16 of 17 awards and $556 thousand of the $563 thousand combined potential value across the prime portfolio. The vendor holds three active blanket purchase agreements with the Bureau: a $250,000 BPA running through September 2026 (awarded October 2024), a $150,000 BPA that completed September 2024 (awarded October 2023), and a $100,000 BPA that completed September 2022 (awarded October 2021). Task orders under these vehicles support diplomatic engagements, high-level negotiations, virtual meetings for United States Indo-Pacific Command, and mission-critical activities involving Japanese stakeholders. Recent representative work includes a $6,592 BPA call awarded October 2025 (completion September 2026) for ongoing Japanese interpretation, a $4,000 task order from October 2024 (completion September 2025), and an $11,295 call from October 2021 supporting the JA-B-PS8_CHU-SAM KAI FLIGHT T requirement.

Activity has been episodic rather than linear — four awards in 2021, four in 2023, four in 2024, and one in 2025 — with a single award (the $6,592 October 2025 call) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete. Combined dollars obligated total $63 thousand against $563 thousand potential value, reflecting the small-dollar task-order character of language services procurement. Field operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designations across all awards; self-certification as a small disadvantaged business does not anchor the procurement strategy to set-asides. Customer concentration, narrow specialization in Japanese interpretation for State Department diplomatic contexts, and micro-scale awards ($1,130 to $11,295 per task order) distinguish this vendor as a highly specialized, single-customer language-services provider with minimal recompete exposure over the next two years.