Free State Reporting, Inc.

Free State Reporting, Inc., doing business as Free State Reporting Inc., is a woman-owned small business based in Annapolis, Maryland, that delivers court reporting, transcription, translation, and litigation support services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under woman-owned small business and total small business set-asides. The firm operates under NAICS 561492 (Court Reporting and Stenotype Services) and has held a federal footprint spanning over 1,200 prime awards totaling $393.1 million in combined potential value since 1982, with $108.1 million obligated across recent years.

Free State Reporting's capability portfolio centers on verbatim transcription and real-time court reporting for grand jury proceedings, depositions, administrative hearings, and federal litigation support. Representative work includes a $5.067 million time-and-materials delivery order from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) for transcription services, awarded February 1, 2026; a $2.391 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois for grand jury court reporting services, awarded March 1, 2026; and a $1.46 million total small business set-aside IDIQ from the U.S. Attorney's Offices (Eastern District of New York) for grand jury and deposition court reporting, awarded April 1, 2024. The firm also holds a $4.579 million Federal Supply Schedule contract with GSA (awarded May 30, 2024, through May 29, 2029) and a $750,000 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the National Transportation Safety Board (awarded September 27, 2025, through September 26, 2030).

Customer concentration sits heavily with Department of Justice components. The top five funding agencies account for 70% of combined potential value: EOIR leads at $169.6 million across 17 awards (44% of dollar share), followed by U.S. Attorney's Offices at $78 million across 289 awards (20% of dollar share), Department of Labor's Office of Administrative Law Judges at $10 million across 12 awards, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys at $10 million across 36 awards, and Department of Defense Inspector General at $9.5 million across 19 awards. By award count, U.S. Attorney's Offices dominates at 289 awards (47% of the top-five customer base), but EOIR's concentration is driven by fewer, higher-value delivery orders anchoring transcription capacity. The firm serves 93 distinct federal agencies across the portfolio, indicating broad government-wide penetration despite DOJ dominance.

Free State Reporting places work through multiple indefinite delivery vehicles. The firm holds single-award IDIQs with individual U.S. Attorney's Office districts valued between $202,600 and $2.391 million, enabling time-and-materials task-order placement across multiple judicial districts. The $30 million multiple-award IDIQ with EOIR (awarded February 1, 2026, through January 31, 2031) represents the largest active vehicle and serves as the primary sourcing channel for immigration court transcription. The firm also operates under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (314 task orders, $24.9 million combined potential value), Blanket Purchase Agreements with the Department of Labor ($6.22 million through December 5, 2026), and the Office of Administrative Services Procurement Management Branch ($1 million through June 30, 2028). Task order volumes across these vehicles demonstrate steady utilization, with delivery orders ranging from thousands to millions of dollars in ceiling value.

Activity has contracted modestly from a peak of 70 awards in 2022 to 34 awards in 2026, reflecting a shift toward higher-value work under fewer, larger master contracts rather than proliferation of small task orders. Twenty-nine awards (combined potential value $8.5 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure for competitors and recompete risk for the vendor. The firm competes almost exclusively under set-aside vehicles—woman-owned small business sole-source, woman-owned small business, and total small business designations dominate the award record, with full-and-open competition activity limited to specific GSA Schedule task orders and select EOIR orders. The recurring set-aside posture across the prime footprint reflects the firm's certified woman-owned small business status as a core positioning strategy across Department of Justice and civilian agency customer bases.