HAI CHU

HAI CHU, a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American sole proprietorship based in Alexandria, Virginia, provides language services — translation, interpretation, documentation support, and specialized communications assistance — to the Department of State as a prime contractor exclusively under full-and-open (non-set-aside) competitive BPA calls.

HAI CHU operates entirely within a single customer and a single service line. The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 76 of 82 total awards (95% of awards) with $748 thousand in combined potential value; the broader Department of State contributed two additional awards valued at $1 thousand. All work flows through five successive Department of State Bureau of Administration language-services BPAs, with ceiling values escalating from $100 thousand in fiscal 2022 to $150 thousand in 2023 to $250 thousand in 2024. The most recent BPA (awarded October 1, 2024, ceiling $250 thousand) runs through September 30, 2026 and has already generated seven task orders with individual call values ranging from $80 to $1,016.31. Representative recent work includes a $1,200 firm fixed-price call contract awarded October 1, 2024 for language services in Washington, D.C., and a $3,844.42 grant agreement under the U.S. Trade and Development Agency BPA vehicle, also awarded October 1, 2024. Individual call contracts under these BPAs have historically ranged from $55 to $2,756.17 and typically complete within weeks to months of award.

Activity has contracted sharply in recent years. HAI CHU received 25 awards in 2023, 20 in 2022, and 12 in 2021; 2024 saw only 10 awards, and 2025 has recorded just two awards as of October 2026. Combined potential value across all 82 awards stands at $757 thousand, with only $107 thousand obligated (14% realization rate). The vendor competes on full-and-open BPA calls without set-aside protection and faces no apparent recompete cliff — successive annual BPA renewals with the Bureau of Administration represent the entire footprint. All work is performed firm fixed-price, full-time in Washington, D.C. HAI CHU does not subcontract and holds no parent vehicles beyond the Department of State BPAs. The service taxonomy is entirely administrative support (PSC group Support-Administrative, subcode Translation and Interpreting) and translation/interpretation services (NAICS 541512 equivalent).