KIM Kyongsook

KIM Kyongsook is a woman-owned sole proprietorship based in Silver Spring, Maryland that provides translation, interpretation, and cultural advising services to the Department of State Bureau of Administration as a prime contractor under full-and-open competition, with all 48 recent awards issued as BPA calls without set-aside designation. The vendor operates exclusively in PSC "Support- Administrative: Translation And Interpreting" and competes on merit across multiple-award blanket purchase agreements rather than under SBA set-asides despite holding woman-owned small business status.

The vendor's customer footprint is concentrated almost entirely within a single customer agency. The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 47 of 48 awards ($668 thousand combined potential value), with one additional award from the Department of State proper ($71 ceiling). KIM Kyongsook has held a continuous prime contractor relationship with the Bureau of Administration since 2015, issuing language services on an ad hoc basis through successive annual BPA vehicles. The vendor's work consists of short-duration call orders ranging from $71 to $5,267.07 per task, with combined obligated dollars of approximately $18 thousand across the portfolio — reflecting invoiced revenue of roughly 3 percent of the stated ceiling values, typical of on-demand language services. Recent representative work includes $5,267.07 in translation and interpretation support under the October 2024 BPA (ultimate completion January 2025), $1,716 in prior-year call-order work under the October 2023 BPA vehicle ($150 thousand ceiling), and granular task orders for ad hoc interpreting and translation throughout 2022 under the October 2022 BPA ($150 thousand ceiling).

Activity declined from 17 awards in 2022 to single-digit annual call orders in subsequent years (12 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 7 in 2021), reflecting the inherent fragmentation of call-order work rather than a shrinking relationship. The vendor currently holds positions on five Department of State Bureau of Administration BPA vehicles with ceiling values ranging from $150 thousand to $250 thousand, including the active Blanket Purchase Agreement 190PRL25A1732 ($250 thousand ceiling through September 2026) from which 12 task orders have already issued. KIM Kyongsook's client concentration, small contract values, and dependence on a single agency ordering office create vulnerability to shifts in the Bureau's outsourcing strategy for interpretation and translation services, but the nine-year tenure and consistent annual recompete on the BPA vehicles indicate a stable, if niche, federal revenue stream.