Susana I Martin

Susana I Martin, a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Falls Church, Virginia, provides foreign language interpretation, translation, and analytical support services to the Department of State as a prime contractor operating entirely in full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations. The vendor is 100% prime-focused across 47 federal awards, competing on multiple-award blanket purchase agreements rather than holding seats on government-wide IDIQs or GWACs.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dependent. The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 43 of 47 awards (91% of the portfolio) and $992 thousand of the $1 million combined potential value; the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters and the Department of State proper together represent the remaining two awards and $13 thousand. The vendor has served the same customer continuously since at least 2008 across recurring annual BPA cycles.

Susana I Martin holds multiple successive BPA vehicles with the Bureau of Administration, each running on a fiscal-year cadence with renewal in early October. The current active BPA (190PRL25A0277, awarded October 1, 2024, ceiling $250,000, through September 30, 2026) carries ten task orders valued at $42 thousand; the prior BPA (190PRL24A0277, ceiling $150,000) generated eight task orders at $54 thousand. Earlier vehicles (190PRL23A0277, 190PRL22A0277, 190PRL21A0277) follow the same pattern at smaller volumes. Each BPA supports call orders ranging from roughly $500 to $15,000 for interpretation, translation, and specialized analytical work tied to Bureau initiatives including the WEAMERICAS Program, the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, Women as Drivers of Social Change programs, and global economic analysis.

Representative recent work includes a $1,236 call from October 2025 for language services with completion in May 2026, an $8,060 call from October 2024 supporting diplomatic missions through November 2025, and multiple smaller $597 and $824 calls across the same period. The combined dollars obligated across all awards stand at $355 thousand (35% of potential value), reflecting the call-order nature of the work and the vendor's pattern of task-order underutilization relative to BPA ceilings.

Activity has remained modest and flat over the past five years—6 awards in 2021, 5 in 2022, 9 in 2023, 9 in 2024, 2 in 2025—with all work performed in Washington, DC. The vendor has no subcontractor footprint (0% of awards are sub-awards) and no teaming relationships visible in the source. All work falls under NAICS 561421 (Translation and Interpretation Services) and PSC L (Support- Administrative: Translation And Interpreting). The extreme customer concentration and single-agency dependency, combined with the modest annual order volume and flat activity trajectory, characterize Susana I Martin as a specialized language-services vendor with a single, long-standing customer relationship rather than a diversified federal contractor.