Masumi Shahnaz

Masumi Shahnaz, a woman-owned and minority-owned sole proprietorship based in Clifton, Virginia, provides language services — translation, interpretation, language testing, cultural training, and meeting facilitation — to the Department of State as a prime contractor operating exclusively under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations across its entire federal footprint.

The vendor's customer concentration is singular and extreme. The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 52 of 58 total awards (91% of award count and 97% of combined potential value), with the broader Department of State carrying one additional award. Over eighteen years of recorded activity, Masumi Shahnaz has accumulated $843 thousand in combined potential value across all awards, with $193 thousand obligated to date (23% utilization). This low obligated-to-potential ratio reflects the structure of the vendor's engagement: small firm-fixed-price task orders issued repeatedly against multiple blanket purchase agreements, many with individual ceiling values under $2,000.

Masumi Shahnaz holds five successive Department of State Bureau of Administration BPA vehicles, all awarded on October 1st each year: a current $250,000 BPA (190PRL25A0244, expiring September 30, 2026); a $150,000 BPA expiring September 30, 2024; a prior $150,000 BPA expiring September 30, 2023; a $100,000 BPA expiring September 30, 2022; and an earlier vehicle expiring September 30, 2021. The largest vehicle by task order volume is BPA 190PRL22A0244 with 16 task orders and $36 thousand combined potential value, followed by the current BPA 190PRL24A0244 with 10 task orders and $17 thousand combined potential value. All work is performed in Washington, DC on firm-fixed-price terms without subcontractors.

Activity pattern shows a sharp spike in 2021 (17 awards, largely tied to Operation Allies Welcome and Afghan refugee support, SE AMIRI consultation services, and Afghan parolee interviews), declined to 6 awards in 2022, recovered modestly to 11 in 2023, then contracted to 4 in 2024 and 1 in 2025. The vendor holds no parent IDIQs, GWACs, or agency-wide vehicles and operates entirely as a prime on State Department BPAs. The vendor registered in SAM in 2008 and maintains minority-owned and woman-owned business designations. No recompete cliff information is available from the source, though the recurring annual October 1st BPA cycle suggests renewal or recompete activity aligned with that calendar date.