Northern Lights Realtime & Reporting, Inc.

Northern Lights Realtime & Reporting, Inc., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, provides court reporting, deposition transcription, and audio/video transcription services to federal agencies as a 100% prime contractor operating under no set-aside designation despite having originally solicited work under small-business set-asides. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing in full-and-open procurements and operates across NAICS 561410 (Document Preparation Services) and 561491 (Court Reporting and Stenotype Services).

The Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's Offices dominates Northern Lights' customer footprint. The top two customers by potential value account for 99% of combined potential value: the U.S. Attorney's Offices hold six awards worth $501 thousand combined potential value, and the Denali Commission holds nine awards worth $65 thousand. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of the Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management round out the active set. By volume, Denali Commission leads with nine awards, but the U.S. Attorney's Offices' awards carry nearly eight times the dollar value — reflecting the concentration of transcription demand in high-dollar federal litigation and legal operations across Alaska.

Northern Lights holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the U.S. Attorney's Offices valued at $381,688 and running through February 15, 2027. The IDC, originally awarded February 16, 2022, has generated five delivery orders totaling approximately $130 thousand to date, with individual order values ranging from $19,663.70 to $28,286.17 on a time-and-materials basis. Recent work includes a $28,286 delivery order (February 2026) and a $14,534 delivery order (February 2025) for deposition and audio/video transcription supporting U.S. Attorney litigation operations in Alaska. A separate $7,075 purchase order from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (April 2024) covered transcription for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. The company also operates under a Transcription Services vehicle (four task orders, $11 thousand combined) and a Denali Commission Blanket Purchase Agreement (three task orders, $7 thousand combined).

Total prime awards span 23 contracts across the past two decades, with combined potential value of $586 thousand and obligated dollars of $204 thousand (35% realized). Activity has remained flat — one to two awards annually over the past five years — with only one award (combined potential value $28 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. Northern Lights' capability footprint is specialized and localized: court reporting and transcription for federal legal proceedings, environmental impact statement documentation, and regulatory proceedings, with all work performed in Anchorage and sustained demand from Department of Justice operations supporting federal investigations and litigation across Alaska.