Lipka.com, Inc.

Lipka.com, Inc., doing business as Lipka COM Inc., is a woman-owned small business based in New Orleans, Louisiana, that provides court reporting, deposition stenography, grand jury reporting, and interpreter services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, operating under Total Small Business set-aside designations on most of its contract portfolio. Lipka is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with no subcontracting footprint; all 82 awards in its recent portfolio are prime contracts or indefinite delivery vehicles.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on verbatim documentation services for federal legal proceedings. Representative work includes a $1.59 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the U.S. Attorney's Offices (Southern District of New York) for grand jury and deposition court reporting services through July 31, 2030, awarded August 1, 2025; a $653,059.80 single-award indefinite delivery contract with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia for civil depositions and grand jury reporting through June 30, 2030, awarded July 1, 2025; and a $768,245.20 multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with the U.S. Attorney's Offices for nationwide deposition court reporting through July 31, 2026, awarded August 1, 2021. Delivery orders under these vehicles range from small spot procurements (e.g., a $5,696.94 purchase order from U.S. Attorney's Offices in April 2026) to substantive engagements (e.g., a $201,457.53 delivery order for deposition court reporting services through March 31, 2024). Work is performed at multiple locations including New York City, Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, and New Orleans.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of Justice. The top five funding organizations account for 82 percent of award count: the U.S. Attorney's Offices (33 awards, $8.2 million combined potential value), the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (13 awards, $3.8 million), the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (13 awards, $278 thousand), the Navy's Naval Supply Systems Command (5 awards, $452 thousand), and the Department of Commerce's U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (3 awards, $754 thousand). By potential value, the U.S. Attorney's Offices and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys account for 84 percent of the vendor's recent portfolio, signaling concentration risk in a single customer.

Lipka holds five active indefinite delivery contracts: two 2025 single-award IDCs with U.S. Attorney's Offices regional offices (DC and SDNY) totaling $2.25 million; one 2021 multiple-award IDC with U.S. Attorney's Offices for $768,245 through July 2026; one 2023 multiple-award IDC with U.S. Attorney's Offices for $490,126 through March 2028; and one older naval IDC (N0018921DZ026) with 12 task orders valued at $28 thousand. Personnel supporting federal contracts must obtain security clearances ranging from Tier 4 High Risk Public Trust to Top Secret level, depending on the proceeding classification.

Activity has remained steady over the past five years (7 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 4 in 2024, 7 in 2025, 3 through April 2026) with combined potential value of $14.1 million and combined obligated value of $2.9 million (20 percent utilization). Six awards carrying $361 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure concentrated in the U.S. Attorney's Offices delivery-order vehicle. The vendor's award footprint is heavily weighted toward NAICS 561492 (Court Reporting and Stenotype Services) and PSC Support-Administrative: Court Reporting, with no diversity across service lines or customer bases.