Interpreters Unlimited, Inc.

Interpreters Unlimited, Inc., a San Diego-based minority-owned small disadvantaged business, provides American Sign Language interpretation, foreign language translation, and video remote interpreting services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards), with 54 total prime and sub awards across 28 customer agencies. The company is a Subcontinent Asian American-owned Subchapter S corporation registered since April 2002, operating under primary NAICS 74150 (Translation and Interpretation Services) with a 49-award portfolio concentrated in that category.

Interpreters Unlimited's customer base is fragmented across civilian and defense health agencies with no dominant concentration. The top five agencies by award count — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Veterans Benefits Administration, the Defense Health Agency, Veterans Integrated Service Network 22, and the Customs and Border Protection directorate of the Department of Homeland Security — account for only 35% of awards combined. By dollar value, the ranking shifts: Customs and Border Protection leads with $1.3 million across three awards, followed by the Defense Health Agency ($301 thousand across four awards) and Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 ($117 thousand across three awards), accounting for 37% of combined potential value. This distribution reflects a services-heavy, small-order vendor footprint with broad government-wide reach but no single anchor customer.

The company sits on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, from which 32 task orders carry $2.5 million in combined potential value — its primary vehicle. Interpreters Unlimited also holds positions on Alliant (4 task orders), The Professional Services Schedule (2 task orders), and smaller BPA and IDIQ vehicles. Recent representative prime work includes a $153,353 Defense Health Agency translation services delivery order (April 2024, MAS), a $72,250 Total Small Business set-aside for American Sign Language in-person interpretation at the Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (March 2026), a $46,400 Total Small Business set-aside for video remote interpreting services to the Army's Communications Electronics Command (September 2023, MAS), and a $41,250 Defense Health Agency American Sign Language interpreter services order at Fort Stewart, Georgia (September 2025, MAS). The vendor subcontracts on eligibility support services to Serco Inc. under contracts awarded July 2023 and July 2022.

Activity has been episodic — one award in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — after three awards in 2023 and one in 2022, suggesting a low-velocity, reactive pursuit posture rather than sustained prime growth. Combined potential value stands at $5.6 million, though combined obligated dollars across all awards total $7.6 million, indicating that actual invoicing has exceeded stated contract ceilings. SCI-reportable federal service-contract activity is minimal: only two records above the $150,000 reporting threshold appear in the Service Contract Inventory, both as subcontractor engagements, with approximately 0.5 FTEs delivered in FY2022 and FY2024. The vendor operates as a self-contained delivery resource rather than a feeder subcontractor — most work is prime, and sub engagement is negligible in SCI-captured contracts.

Language Service Provider offering document translation, in-person interpretation and telephone interpretation, nationwide, for nearly 40 years.