Language On Demand, Inc.

Language On Demand, Inc., a minority-owned, 8(a)-certified small disadvantaged business, delivers language interpretation, translation, language training, and accessibility support services across more than 130 languages to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). Headquartered in Annandale, Virginia, the company operates as an Asian-Pacific American–owned corporation competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements rather than set-aside categories, though several awards carry Total Small Business or 8(a) Sole Source designations.

Language On Demand's federal work centers on linguistic services for diplomatic, defense, healthcare, and administrative operations. Representative prime work includes a $1.49 million labor-hour delivery order with the Office of Administrative Services for interpretive services at the Western Lab (awarded December 2022, extending through May 2026); a $1.92 million Total Small Business delivery order with the National Archives and Records Administration for sign language and CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) services across five-year base plus four option years (awarded February 2025); a $921 thousand labor-hour delivery order with the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service for language translation services (July 2022–July 2027); and a $220 thousand delivery order with a Defense agency headquarters for Chinese Mandarin relanguaging training at Fort Meade, Maryland (awarded August 2023, completed February 2025). The company also holds multiple indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring its service delivery, including a $25 million BPA with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service for translation, Section 508 accessibility remediation, and graphic design services; a $7.875 million Total Small Business–set-aside IDC with the Defense Logistics Agency for American Sign Language interpreting and EEO accommodations; a $675 thousand single-award BPA with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency for French language instruction in Germany; and a $743 thousand single-award IDC with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) for Japanese translation services supporting Far East operations.

Customer concentration skews toward defense and diplomatic agencies. By award count, the top five customers account for 61% of recent awards: the Naval Network Warfare Command (117 awards, $19.7 million combined potential value) leads, followed by the Food and Drug Administration (40 awards, $14.2 million), the Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (32 awards, $150 thousand), the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (19 awards, $113 thousand), and the Defense Logistics Agency (11 awards, $8.5 million). By potential value, the Food and Nutrition Service anchors the portfolio at $26.1 million across six awards—primarily the $25 million BPA—while the Naval Network Warfare Command's 117 awards deliver $19.7 million and the FDA's 40 awards deliver $14.2 million. The divergence between the two rankings reflects the Naval Network Warfare Command's high-volume, lower-value task-order pattern (averaging roughly $168 thousand per award) against the Food and Nutrition Service's concentration in a single large vehicle.

Language On Demand sits on four primary contracting vehicles by volume. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries the largest footprint—124 task orders worth $50.6 million combined potential value—spanning language training, interpretation, translation, and transcription services across civilian and defense agencies. Beyond MAS, three Navy-specific IDCs generate significant activity: Indefinite Delivery Contract N0018916DZ045 (Naval Network Warfare Command, 30 task orders, $3.4 million combined value) for language training; Indefinite Delivery Contract N0018916DZ036 (Naval Network Warfare Command, 13 task orders, $3.9 million combined value) for similar training; and an older IDIQ vehicle (19GE5020D0020, 60 task orders, $297 thousand combined value). The vendor also executes against agency-specific vehicles including the USDA Food and Nutrition Service BPA, the Defense Logistics Agency IDC, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency BPA, and the Department of State Bureau of Administration BPA (multiple-award, $250 thousand ceiling, awarded October 2024 with performance through September 2026).

Activity has contracted sharply. The vendor executed 29 awards in 2024, 25 in 2023, and 15 in 2022, but only 12 in 2025 and 1 to date in 2026 (June 2026 award). Only three awards with potential value totaling $1.4 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating limited near-term recompete exposure. The combined potential value across all 360 prime awards stands at $156.7 million, with $49.4 million obligated to date (32% of combined potential value), indicating backlog and sustained activity across a large contract portfolio.

Across SCI-reportable service contracts (covering only federal work above the $150,000 threshold), Language On Demand invoiced $1.4 million from FY2022 through FY2024, growing from $157 thousand in FY2022 to $600 thousand in FY2024. Federal workforce scale on these reportable contracts expanded from 1.1 FTEs in FY2022 to 6.8 FTEs in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from $58.51 per hour at the 10th percentile through a median of $102.36 per hour to $255.68 per hour at the 90th percentile, reflecting a mix of junior linguistic staff (interpreters, translators) and senior subject-matter expertise. The vendor performs substantially all work with its own staff; no meaningful subcontractor engagement appears in SCI records.

Language On Demand's award footprint—225 translation and interpretation services awards, 113 language school / training awards, and 10 court reporting awards—reflects a deep specialization in federal linguistic services. The company competes across 71 distinct federal agencies, with concentrations in State Department overseas language training (Frankfurt Consulate General and diplomatic missions across Europe), Navy and DoD language immersion and training programs, FDA captioning services, and USDA nutrition-program translation. The vendor operates without reliance on subcontractors and maintains direct delivery across its service lines, positioning it as a specialized language-services prime rather than a system integrator or holding company.

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