Ihab Zaki

Ihab Zaki, a sole proprietorship based in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan (with operational presence in Washington, DC), provides language services including translation and interpretation to the federal government as a prime contractor on multiple-award blanket purchase agreements with the Department of State Bureau of Administration. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designation across its prime footprint.

Ihab Zaki's federal work is concentrated almost entirely with the Department of State Bureau of Administration — eleven of thirteen total awards (100% coverage of the active customer set) carry a combined potential value of $576 thousand. The vendor holds three successive multiple-award BPAs under the Bureau's language services procurement vehicle: a $150 thousand BPA running through September 2023 (awarded October 2022), a $150 thousand BPA running through September 2024 (awarded October 2023), and a $250 thousand BPA running through September 2026 (awarded October 2024). Under these BPAs, the vendor receives periodic firm-fixed-price call awards for discrete translation and interpretation tasks — recent examples include a $3.195 thousand language services call (awarded October 2025, completing April 2026) and a $585 call awarded October 2022. The vendor also holds positions on two basic ordering agreements under the Department of State procurement system (BOA SOPRLS12G5706 and BOA SOPRLS17G5706), each carrying small task-order volume. One subcontract sub-award appears in the record: courtroom and case preparation support services delivered under Leidos as prime to an unnamed federal customer (awarded December 2023).

Award activity has been episodic — one award in 2020, two in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2025 — suggesting ad hoc call issuance against standing BPAs rather than sustained high-volume ordering. The combined dollars obligated ($816 thousand) exceed the combined potential value ($579 thousand) by 41%, indicating that actual consumption has run ahead of contract ceilings. The vendor operates as a prime on 92% of awards; Service Contract Inventory data capture only one SCI record (the subcontract to Leidos in FY2024), indicating that most Ihab Zaki awards fall below the SCI $150 thousand reporting threshold or do not carry labor reporting requirements. With a sole-proprietorship structure and micro-contract awards in the low-thousands range, the vendor appears to operate as an individual linguist or small language-services shop serving State Department translation and interpretation needs on an as-needed basis rather than as a staffed service provider.