Gradillas Court Reporters, Inc.

Gradillas Court Reporters, Inc., doing business as Gradillas Court Reporters, operates as an SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), Minority-Owned Business, and Self-Certified Small Disadvantaged Business that delivers court reporting, transcription, and court documentation services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. Based in Glendale, California, the firm competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations, though a small portion of recent awards carry Total Small Business set-asides.

Gradillas' federal footprint centers on high-volume, low-value purchase orders for discrete court reporting engagements. The company provides verbatim transcripts, deposition recording, virtual and in-person court reporting, and transcription services for oral replies, depositions, interviews, arbitration hearings, and administrative proceedings across federal agencies. Representative work includes over 75 purchase orders awarded by the Internal Revenue Service since July 2022 ranging from $200 to $23.8 thousand, a $1.36 million time-and-materials contract from the Securities and Exchange Commission for worldwide deposition reporting and transcription services, and a $85 thousand purchase order from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for court reporting services across HUD field offices. Department of the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a $3.4 thousand delivery order for deposition recording services under the Multiple Award Schedule.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service accounts for 2,358 awards (82% of volume) with $3.1 million combined potential value, followed distantly by the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office (314 awards, $2.1 million), the Securities and Exchange Commission (40 awards, $13 million), and the Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor (106 awards, $754 thousand). The SEC ranking diverges markedly from volume—while Gradillas receives far fewer SEC awards than IRS orders, the SEC's $1.36 million contract and additional awards anchor 59% of the vendor's total combined potential value across the entire portfolio. The top five customers represent 99% of awards.

The vendor sits on the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) with 111 task orders valued at $2 million combined potential value, the Temporary Administrative and Professional Staffing (TAPS) vehicle with 75 task orders worth $431 thousand, and several agency-specific blanket purchase agreements and indefinite delivery contracts. The MAS and TAPS vehicles serve as the primary conduits for delivery orders.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years. Annual award count fell from 149 in 2022 to 84 in 2023, 52 in 2024, and only 25 in 2025, with 2 awards recorded year-to-date in 2026. This trajectory suggests maturation of the IRS relationship, which historically generated 75+ annual orders, offset by limited new customer acquisition. The vendor operates entirely as a prime—all 2,874 awards in the portfolio are prime contracts or task orders; the company performs no subcontract work for other primes and engages no subcontractors on its own deliveries.

SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $4.7 million across prime contracts in FY2022–FY2024, with $1.7 million invoiced in FY2022 and $3.1 million in FY2023; FY2024 carried no SCI-reportable invoicing above the $150 thousand threshold. FTE trajectory shows volatility: FY2022 reported 18.2 FTEs, FY2023 1,179 FTEs (reflecting the large SEC contract and scaling of IRS work), and FY2024 5.0 FTEs. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $11.98/hr to a median of $29.05/hr and a 90th percentile of $50.00/hr, consistent with court reporting and transcription labor.

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.