Prisma International, Inc.

Prisma International, Inc., a Minneapolis-based for-profit organization founded in 2010, delivers foreign language translation, interpretation, transcription, and localization services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) competing on full and open basis across the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and agency-specific BPAs. The vendor holds no SBA set-aside certifications and competes predominantly in unrestricted federal procurements.

Prisma's customer concentration is heavily weighted to disaster response and immigration operations. The Federal Emergency Management Agency dominates both volume and dollars — 39 awards (47% of the recent footprint) valued at $54.2 million combined potential value — driven by a single-award $50 million FEMA Language Services BPA established in August 2022 and running through August 2027, under which the vendor places rapid-cycle task orders for disaster declaration language support. The Department of Commerce US Census Bureau ranks second with 18 awards ($11.3 million combined potential value), followed by US Citizenship and Immigration Services with four awards ($3.8 million) for asylum interpreter services, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency with two awards ($1.9 million) for translation support, and US Customs and Border Protection with three awards ($951 thousand) for field translation services. The top five customers account for 83% of recent awards, with FEMA anchoring the portfolio. A secondary value signal appears in the one GSA Federal Acquisition Service award ($14.4 million combined potential value), which likely represents a pricing or rebate item rather than operational task volume.

Prisma executes work through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (124 task orders, $86.7 million combined potential value) and The Professional Services Schedule (21 task orders, $5.6 million). The vendor also holds a secondary $250,000 multiple-award BPA with the Department of the Air Force Headquarters District Washington for transcription services, requiring 99% accuracy on audio and video recordings of interviews and pretext phone calls. Representative capability work includes a $2.24 million USCIS interpreter services BPA call (completed August 2024) supporting asylum adjudications, a $1.46 million CISA translation services BPA call exercising an option period, a $413,026 FEMA language support BPA call for disaster response in Florida (DR4673-FL), a $304,500 CBP translation services BPA call for field operations, and recurring task orders with FEMA averaging $100,000–$300,000 each for disaster-specific written translation and interpretation across disaster declarations in California, Hawaii, Texas, Puerto Rico, and other jurisdictions.

Activity has grown from two awards in 2022 to nineteen in 2024, with a pullback to six in 2025 and six year-to-date in 2026 — a profile consistent with task-order volatility on disaster-driven vehicles rather than sustained growth. Twelve awards (combined potential value $4.3 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. SCI-reported federal service contract invoicing totaled $3.9 million across FY2023–FY2025, with FY2024 generating $2.5 million across 0.7 FTEs and FY2025 generating $838 thousand across 3.8 FTEs. SCI is a partial view — it covers only contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold and excludes goods, products, and non-federal revenue — and Prisma's actual federal service delivery is substantially larger than the SCI figures. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from $22,725 to $203,317 per hour, with a median of $113,021, reflecting a mix of senior language expertise and administrative transcription labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Prisma performed 100% of delivery internally with zero subcontractor engagement. One sub-award appears in the source: a federal MH Block Grant sub-recipient position with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (June 2024).

Prisma's footprint concentrates on emergency management and immigration services translation where rapid mobilization and multilingual staffing capacity drive vendor selection. The portfolio is defense-light (no DoD prime awards, one small Air Force transcription vehicle) and civilian-focused. The vendor's competitive position rests on GSA MAS access, the strategic $50 million FEMA anchor vehicle, and demonstrated ability to deliver across disaster declarations and immigration processing without subcontractor reliance — a profile that makes Prisma a viable teaming option for larger primes pursuing language-intensive government work but not a prime anchor for enterprise-scale IT or complex service integrations.