Norton, Thomas

Norton, Thomas, a sole proprietorship based in Edmond, Oklahoma, provides translation and language interpretation services to the Department of State as a prime contractor on multiple-award blanket purchase agreements, competing in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations. All 91 recent awards are BPA task orders for language services, with no subcontract activity.

The vendor's customer base is essentially monolithic: the Department of State's Bureau of Administration accounts for 74 awards and $907 thousand in combined potential value (87% of awards, 92% of total value), with five additional awards from the broader Department of State totaling $23 thousand. Work is performed exclusively in Washington, DC, and comprises translation services (particularly English-to-foreign language and Portuguese-to-English translation), interpretation, diplomatic administrative support, regulatory investigations, trade and environmental policy consultations, event planning, and specialized work around COVID-19 response, energy cooperation, human rights dialogue, and disinformation identification.

Norton, Thomas holds a succession of Department of State Bureau of Administration BPAs, each running twelve months with ceilings between $100 thousand and $250 thousand. The vendor currently operates under a $250 thousand BPA (190PRL25A0186, awarded October 1, 2024, running through September 30, 2026) under which 19 task orders have been issued totaling $84 thousand. The immediately preceding $150 thousand BPA (190PRL24A0186, October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024) generated 18 task orders worth $34 thousand. Prior BPAs dating to October 2021 follow the same annual-renewal cycle, each generating between nine and twenty task orders with individual ceiling values ranging from $214 to $16,300. The vendor's contracting relationship with the Bureau of Administration extends to at least 2007 according to the source; recent awards cluster in October of each year, suggesting annual BPA renewals initiated by the customer.

Activity has been uneven across the five-year window: thirteen awards in 2021, declining to ten in 2022, rising to twenty in 2023, falling to fifteen in 2024, and dropping to five in 2025 (a partial-year snapshot). Combined potential value across all 91 awards totals $988 thousand, with $338 thousand obligated (34% utilization). No recompete cliff signal is present in the source; the vendor's current BPA runs through September 2026. Norton, Thomas does not appear in federal procurement as a sub-award recipient and carries no reported set-aside certifications. The vendor's footprint is defined entirely by micro-scale, recurring language-services task orders under a single customer agency's standing BPA vehicles.