Hopson-King Joyce A

Hopson-King Joyce A Joyce Hopson-King Division, a sole proprietor operating as a minority-owned, woman-owned, and Black American-owned small business, delivers translation, interpretation, and localization services to the Department of State as a prime contractor on a full-and-open (non-set-aside) basis. Headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania, the firm operates entirely on BPA call orders issued by the Department of State Bureau of Administration, with work performed in Washington, DC.

The vendor's customer base is singular: the Department of State accounts for 100% of awards, with the Bureau of Administration commanding 33 of 37 total awards worth $803 thousand in combined potential value and the parent Department of State adding four awards worth $29 thousand. All work falls under PSC H29—Support, Administrative: Translation and Interpreting. Activity has tracked uneven year to year — three awards in 2021, nine in 2022, thirteen in 2023, then four each in 2024 and 2025 — suggesting either task-order pacing variation or a shift in how the Department structures its language-services procurement. Combined potential value across the portfolio stands at $833 thousand, with $183 thousand obligated to date (22% utilization).

Hopson-King Joyce A holds positions on five successive Department of State Bureau of Administration BPAs, each carrying a $150,000 to $250,000 ceiling and running one to two-year performance windows. The current active vehicle is Blanket Purchase Agreement 190PRL25A0604 (October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2026, $250,000 ceiling) supporting seven task orders worth $38 thousand. The predecessor vehicle, 190PRL24A0604 (October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024, ceiling unknown), generated twelve task orders totaling $76 thousand. Closed-out vehicles 190PRL23A0604 and 190PRL22A0604 supported eight and two task orders respectively. Individual task orders range from $322 to $10,008 on a firm fixed-price basis. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards); no sub-award activity appears in the source.

Most recent awards cluster in October 2025, when the Department issued five BPA calls: one for $8,300, one for $6,112, one for $8,632, one for $6,444, and one for $7,728, all with completion dates between July and August 2026. This pattern of dense call placement within a single month, repeated annually in October against the standing BPA vehicle, suggests the Department bundles its anticipated language needs at the start of the fiscal year (October 1) or contract year.