Mary C Nimtz

Mary C Nimtz, a woman-owned, minority-owned, and Asian-Pacific American-owned sole proprietorship based in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, provides translation and interpretation services to the Department of State as a prime contractor competing under full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurement. Nimtz operates exclusively as a prime — 100% of recent awards are prime BPA calls and indefinite delivery vehicles — with no subcontract footprint. The vendor specializes in linguistic support across the PSC Support-Administrative (Translation and Interpreting) category and NAICS 541930 (Translation and Interpretation Services).

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 80% of recent awards (40 of 51) and 97% of combined potential value ($920 thousand of $958 thousand total), with a single award to the parent Department of State agency representing the remaining $9 thousand. Nimtz has maintained a sustained relationship with the Bureau of Administration spanning roughly four years, with awards consistently issued October 1 each fiscal year in the form of renewed blanket purchase agreements and subordinate BPA calls.

Nimtz holds seats on five active parent vehicles, all blanket purchase agreements issued by the Department of State Bureau of Administration. The current BPA (190PRL25A0201, running through September 30, 2026) carries a $250 thousand ceiling; it supersedes the prior fiscal year vehicle (190PRL24A0201), which generated 8 task orders valued at $49 thousand combined. Earlier vehicles carried $150 thousand and $100 thousand ceilings respectively, reflecting progressive increases in the Bureau's reliance on Nimtz's services. Task orders under these vehicles fund translation and interpretation support for virtual seminars, language simulations, international visitor leadership programs, professional exchange facilitation, and global health, refugee response, and agricultural program support.

Activity has been volatile. The vendor earned four awards in 2021, climbed to nine in 2023, declined to five in 2024, and received one award in 2025 — the October 2025 BPA renewal itself. Combined potential value across the fifty-one awards is $958 thousand, with $308 thousand (32%) obligated across the portfolio. Most individual BPA calls range from under $1 thousand to roughly $12 thousand, with the largest single call valued at $12,090 for language services in May 2023. No recompete cliff signal is present in the source; the vendor's contracts roll over annually through the BPA renewal mechanism rather than face discrete recompete windows. Nimtz competes full-and-open despite qualifying as a small, minority-owned, woman-owned business, which is unusual and suggests the Bureau of Administration either lacks set-aside vehicles for language services or elects not to reserve Nimtz's work for set-aside competitions.