Kauffman Katherine A

Kauffman Katherine A, a sole proprietorship based in Falls Church, Virginia, provides translation, interpretation, localization, transcription, and foreign language training services to the Department of State as a prime contractor, competing exclusively in full-and-open procurement with no set-aside designations across its entire federal footprint.

The vendor operates exclusively under blanket purchase agreements with the Department of State Bureau of Administration, holding successive three-year BPA cycles running from fiscal year 2022 through 2026. The current vehicle, awarded October 1, 2024 with a $250,000 ceiling through September 30, 2026, represents the highest-value authorization to date and reflects the agency's confidence in the vendor's language-support capability. Prior BPA vehicles carried $150,000 ceilings in 2022 and 2023. Work is performed in Washington, DC, priced on a firm fixed-price basis, and consists entirely of call orders ranging from $195 to $13,731. The vendor has received 16 initial call orders against the current BPA, with individual completion dates extending through September 27, 2025 and combined initial obligations of approximately $68,960 against the $250,000 ceiling.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 63 of 64 awards and $877 thousand of combined potential value across the vendor's entire federal footprint. The remaining single award—$620 in value—also traces to the Department of State (organization-level only). The vendor serves no other federal agencies and holds no prime contracts outside the State Department's language services procurement. Over the past five years, activity has been cyclical, peaking at 17 awards in both 2022 and 2023, declining to 16 in 2024, with one award recorded in 2025. Across all 64 awards, $227 thousand has been obligated, representing 26% of combined potential value—the typical utilization rate for open-ended BPA vehicles where task orders are drawn down against authorized ceilings over multi-year periods.

The vendor's service scope is narrow and concrete: written translation of documents, simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, localization of materials, transcription, and foreign language instruction, all in support of the State Department's diplomatic functions, foreign policy engagement, law enforcement collaboration, democracy promotion, and human trafficking prevention programs. No subcontractor relationships, sub-awards, or secondary customer agencies appear in the source record. Kauffman Katherine A operates as a sole-proprietor language-services provider with a single-agency customer and a repeating BPA procurement pattern, positioning it as a specialized linguistic-support vendor with no broader federal market exposure.