Okazaki Shiori

Okazaki Shiori, a minority-owned, woman-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned sole proprietorship based in Arlington, Virginia, provides Japanese language translation, interpretation, localization, and diplomatic meeting support services exclusively to the Department of State as a prime contractor on full-and-open BPA calls with no set-aside designations. The vendor operates entirely within the federal language services market — all 95 recent awards span translation and interpretation work (NAICS uncoded; PSC Support-Administrative) — and competes on pricing and availability rather than through SBA set-aside vehicles.

Okazaki Shiori's customer footprint is entirely consolidated with the Department of State's Bureau of Administration, which accounts for 83 of 95 awards and $878 thousand of $897 thousand combined potential value (97.8% concentration). An additional 12 awards from the broader Department of State organization contribute $19 thousand. This concentration reflects a specialized contracting relationship: the vendor holds a series of successively renewed BPA vehicles with the Bureau of Administration, each titled "SHIORI OKAZAKI LSA" (Language Services Agreement), stretching from October 2021 through September 2026. The current active BPA (190PRL25A0420, awarded October 1, 2024) carries a $250 thousand ceiling with a performance period through September 30, 2026. The prior three fiscal-year BPAs (2024, 2023, 2022) held ceilings of $150 thousand, $150 thousand, and $100 thousand respectively. Across these vehicles, task orders have ranged from as low as $300 to as high as $14,782, with a median call value under $2,000.

The vendor's work product centers on supporting U.S.-Japan bilateral diplomacy, international programming, and presidential travel. Representative tasks include $5,337 for POTUS travel to Tokyo in May 2022, $14,150 for an empowering women's political leadership initiative, $10,746 for U.S.-Japan relations support, and multiple $753–$5,600 calls supporting high-level bilateral meetings, defense policy coordination with Japan's Ministry of Defense, and the U.S.-Japan-Korea trilateral legislative cooperation effort. The more recent award tranche (October 2024 and later) shows twelve BPA calls issued across the fiscal 2025 vehicle, ranging from $824 to $7,416 and carrying ultimate completion dates between February and August 2026.

Activity has grown modestly but consistently — twelve awards in 2021 to twenty-nine in 2024 — before dropping to twelve in the 2025 calendar year captured in the source. Only one award ($3 thousand) faces recompete inside the next twenty-four months; the bulk of Okazaki Shiori's runway extends through the active FY25 BPA's September 2026 expiration. The vendor has generated $247 thousand in combined obligated dollars against $897 thousand in combined potential value (28% utilization), indicating substantial ordering authority remaining across the current and previous-cycle agreements. Obligated and potential values are consistently reported in sub-million ranges; this is a small-dollar, high-volume task-order practice with the State Department, not a large prime contract vehicle.

Okazaki Shiori does not hold sub-awards or teaming relationships. The vendor operates as a solo prime, specialized in a narrow language-services niche, with zero competition exposure visible in recent awards — all work flows through the State Department's existing language services BPA infrastructure, which names Okazaki Shiori as the exclusive awardee for Japanese language support across the performance periods.