Language Services Associates, Inc.

Language Services Associates, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned, and Hispanic American-owned Subchapter S corporation based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, provides telephonic interpretation, on-site interpretation, translation, and transcription services to federal agencies as a 100% prime contractor, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations.

The vendor's federal footprint spans 214 awards with combined potential value of $1.05 billion, though the award trajectory has declined sharply in recent years — five awards in 2022 falling to one award each in 2024, 2025, and 2026 — and only $909 thousand in combined potential value faces recompete within the next twenty-four months. Thirty-five distinct customer agencies have placed work with Language Services Associates, but concentration is moderate and fragmented. The top five customers by award count (Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection, DHS Chief Procurement Officer, Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Small Business Administration Office of Disaster Assistance) account for 36% of awards. By potential value, the SBA Office of Disaster Assistance leads at $17.3 million across 11 awards, followed by GSA Federal Acquisition Service at $15.2 million, DOJ EOIR at $6.7 million, and DHS CPO at $5.7 million — together representing only 4% of combined potential value, signaling substantial long-tail distribution across smaller task orders.

Language Services Associates holds two primary contract vehicles: the GSA Professional Services Schedule (PSS), under which 148 task orders totaling $34.2 million in combined potential value have been placed, and a $7 million single-award BPA with the SBA Office of Disaster Assistance running through April 2027 for telephonic and on-site interpretation support. The vendor also anchors a $2.5 million multiple-award BPA with DOJ EOIR for telephonic interpretation services under the PSS vehicle, with performance through January 2027. Representative recent work includes an $800 thousand BPA call awarded February 1, 2026 by EOIR for on-demand and scheduled telephonic interpreter services (firm fixed price, through January 2027), an $800 thousand BPA call from EOIR dated February 1, 2025 for telephonic interpretation at $1.65 per minute (time-and-materials, through January 2026), and a $474 thousand BPA call from EOIR dated February 1, 2024 for telephonic interpretation services under PSS (through January 2025). The vendor also holds a $6 million Federal Supply Schedule contract with GSA and has issued $150 thousand and $300 thousand task orders respectively from the SBA BPA for interpretation services in Horsham, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal recent federal services activity: SCI-reported invoicing of $569 thousand in FY2024 across 4.3 FTEs, with no SCI-reportable invoicing in FY2022 or FY2023. On the two prime contracts captured in SCI in FY2024, government-paid hourly rates ranged from $53.10/hr at the tenth percentile to $65.63/hr at the ninety percentile (median $59.36/hr). The vendor builds its own delivery capacity without subcontractor reliance — zero subcontractor hours are reflected in SCI-reportable prime contracts. Language Services Associates' historical award volume (214 total awards) and wide agency scatter mask a business trajectory under pressure: the vendor's recent award frequency has contracted year over year, the dollar ceiling on the two largest standing vehicles (SBA $7 million BPA and DOJ $2.5 million BPA) anchors near-term work, and minimal SCI-reported activity in recent fiscal years suggests invoicing on these task orders remains below the $150 thousand reporting threshold or that performance is concentrated in classified or non-federal channels.