Khin, May ZAW

Khin, May ZAW, a minority-owned and woman-owned sole proprietorship based in Montgomery Village, Maryland, provides translation, interpretation, country profile research, and language-focused professional consulting services to the Department of State as a prime contractor on full-and-open BPA calls. The vendor operates exclusively under non-set-aside procurement and has generated 38 awards since 2016, all with the Department of State, carrying a combined potential value of $790 thousand against three active BPAs running through September 2026.

The vendor's customer concentration is absolute: the Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 37 of 38 awards (100% of combined potential value at $790 thousand), with a single award to the parent Department of State agency for $189. Work is performed in Washington, D.C. and supports the Bureau's diplomatic mission operations, including human rights reporting, international religious freedom initiatives, the International Women of Courage program, and trafficking-in-persons remediation. Recent examples include a $1,600 language services BPA call through May 2025, a $256 BPA call through August 2025, and a $400 BPA call through June 2025, all under the Department of State Bureau of Administration. Earlier representative work includes an $8,179 contract (March 2024) and a $14,328 contract (January 2024) for translation, interpretation, country profiles, and educational workshops, with specific deliverables such as Burma 2022 country profiles and Burmese language interpretation services.

Khin, May ZAW holds positions on five active Department of State Bureau of Administration BPAs, each with $150,000 ceilings. The vendor has earned 8 task orders under BPA 190PRL24A0237 (combined potential value $46 thousand), 8 under BPA 190PRL23A0237 ($21 thousand), 5 under BPA 190PRL25A0237 ($3 thousand), 4 under BPA 190PRL22A0237 ($18 thousand), and 3 under BPA 190PRL21A0237 ($3 thousand). Activity has remained flat to declining over the past five years — six awards in 2021, peaked at nine in both 2022 and 2023, dropped to five in 2024, and one award in 2025 — with combined dollars obligated at only $140 thousand against a potential value of $790 thousand, indicating that most ceiling allocations remain unexercised. The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint and competes solely under the Translation and Interpretation Services NAICS code (PSC Support—Administrative: Translation and Interpreting).