Henderson Legal Services, Inc.

Henderson Legal Services, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, provides court reporting, stenography, transcription, and deposition services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, operating across both set-aside and full-and-open competitive procurement channels. The company specializes in verbatim documentation of legal proceedings—depositions, arbitration hearings, EEOC cases, and tax-related proceedings—delivered through in-person and virtual formats via Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx, with transcript delivery timelines ranging from standard ten-day turnaround to expedited two-day service.

Henderson Legal Services competes predominantly through full-and-open procurement on individual purchase orders rather than against standing contract vehicles; the source shows no participation in GWACs, IDIQs, BPAs, or GSA Schedules. The company operates as a prime contractor with no subcontracting footprint—all 354 awards in the source are prime awards, and the vendor performs work directly without delegating to subordinate contractors. Set-aside posture is mixed: roughly 40 percent of recent awards carry Total Small Business designations, while the remainder compete in open market procurements without set-aside protection.

Customer concentration is pronounced and highly specialized. The Internal Revenue Service accounts for 54 percent of awards (191 purchase orders, $407 thousand combined potential value), making it Henderson Legal Services' anchor customer by a wide margin. The Federal Emergency Management Agency ranks second with 26 awards worth $107 thousand, followed by the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office (30 awards, $80 thousand), the Department of Education (15 awards, $28 thousand), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency Support Services Section (9 awards, $24 thousand). These five customers comprise 77 percent of award count. IRS dominance across both volume and dollar rankings signals deep, embedded customer relationship rather than transactional vendor diversity.

Representative work spans IRS legal proceedings, EEOC depositions, and federal employment cases. Recent examples include a $22,000 time-and-materials purchase order from IRS (July 2024) for court reporter services through February 2025; multiple FEMA purchases for EEOC case transcripts ($11.5 million, $7.6 million, $7.8 million) in 2023–2024; a $19,450 total small business set-aside from the Department of Defense Education Activity (April 2022) for court reporting services through April 2023; and dozens of individual IRS transaction-specific purchase orders ranging from $325 to $13,170 for virtual and in-person depositions, arbitration hearings, and witness transcription supporting IRS Chief Counsel litigation and Criminal Investigation operations.

Activity has grown steadily: 39 awards in 2022, 58 in 2023, 64 in 2024, then slowed to 27 in 2025 and 12 in 2026 year-to-date (as of July 17, 2026). Six awards worth $30 thousand combined face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and thus represent recompete opportunity for competitors. Combined potential value across the full portfolio stands at $1.1 million with $989 thousand obligated, reflecting the transactional, task-by-task nature of court reporting demand across federal agencies.

The vendor's award history spans multiple agencies but exhibits no defense prime work and no classification codes indicating IT, engineering, or management consulting services. PSC coding shows 270 awards under Support–Administrative: Court Reporting, 49 under Support–Professional: Legal, and smaller volumes under transcription and other categories, confirming that Henderson Legal Services operates exclusively in the legal documentation and court reporting niche with no diversification into adjacent service lines.

We provide court reporters for depositions, trials hearings and meetings; audio/video tape transcription; video services including taping, editing, duplicating and conversions as well as

synch/linking of text to video.