Gradillas Court Reporters, Inc.

Gradillas Court Reporters, Inc., doing business as Gradillas Court Reporters, is a Women-Owned Small Business and Minority-Owned Business headquartered in Glendale, California that delivers court reporting and transcription services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on a high-volume, micropurchase basis. The vendor holds SBA designations as a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), Minority-Owned Business, Self-Certified Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB), and Hispanic American-Owned. Gradillas competes predominantly in full-and-open and small-business set-aside purchase orders, with no larger vehicle presence and minimal subcontracting footprint.

Gradillas' federal work centers on verbatim court reporting, deposition recording, and transcription services for legal proceedings, oral replies, arbitration hearings, interviews, and remote conferences. The vendor specializes in both virtual and in-person court reporting, delivering transcripts in hardcopy and electronic PDF formats. Representative recent work includes a $6,603 IRS Large Business and International Division contract (July 2025) for in-person court reporting services covering eleven to thirteen interviews in Houston, Texas; an $85,000 Department of Housing and Urban Development court reporting services award (July 2024) for HUD field offices through September 2025; and a $1.36 million time-and-materials contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission (2022) for worldwide deposition reporting and transcription services. The vendor also delivered a $3,430.90 delivery order to the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (February 2024) for deposition recording services on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

Customer concentration is extreme and concentrated in two tiers. The Internal Revenue Service dominates by award count, issuing 2,360 of the 2,876 total prime awards (82% of award count) with a combined potential value of $3.1 million, reflecting hundreds of small, discrete court reporter purchase orders typically valued between $1,000 and $10,000. The Securities and Exchange Commission anchors potential value at $13 million on only 40 awards, signaling substantially larger task orders. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office placed 314 awards ($2.1 million combined potential value), the Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor issued 106 awards ($754 thousand), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission awarded 14 orders ($49 thousand). Together these five agencies represent 99% of recent awards and 88% of combined potential value.

Gradillas places work under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (111 task orders, $1.9 million combined potential value) and held seats on the TAAPS (Temporary Administrative and Professional Staffing) contract vehicle (75 task orders, $431 thousand), a DOL Blanket Purchase Agreement (20 task orders, $158 thousand), and smaller IDIQs. The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no recorded subcontract footprint across the award sample.

Federal activity declined sharply over the past five years—149 awards in 2022, 84 in 2023, 52 in 2024, 25 in 2025, and 4 year-to-date in 2026—suggesting contraction in recurring IRS purchasing or market saturation in the micropurchase court-reporting space. Only one award carries an ultimate completion date in the next twenty-four months with a potential value of $2 thousand, indicating minimal recompete exposure.

SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $4.7 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $1.7 million invoiced in FY2022 (18.2 FTEs) and $3.1 million in FY2023 (1,179 FTEs), then dropping to near-zero in FY2024 and FY2025. The spike in FY2023 FTE count reflects a single large contract; the dramatic volatility and recent cessation of SCI-reportable activity suggests the bulk of Gradillas' revenue flows through micro-purchases and small orders below or near the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran around $29/hr at the median, with 10th percentile rates of $11.98/hr and 90th percentile rates of $50/hr. The vendor performs all work directly without subcontractors (0% average sub-hours share on prime contracts). Gradillas' federal court-reporting business is granular, high-volume, low-dollar, and IRS-dependent; the recent collapse in annual award count signals either a shift in federal court-reporting procurement strategy or competitive erosion in a market dominated by micropurchases.

Court reporting, internet streaming, video, litigation support, video conference, video/text synch, E-Transcript, exhibit linking, DVD duplication, document production, scanning, photocopying, printing, site inspections, editing, trial presentations, GSA contract holder, arbitration, hearings, depositions, Expedite deliver, nationwide coverage.