QI, Sen

QI, Sen, a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American sole proprietorship based in Germantown, Maryland, provides foreign language interpretation, translation, and specialized informational products to the U.S. Department of State as a prime contractor on full-and-open BPA calls with no set-aside designation. The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of awards) across a single customer — the Department of State Bureau of Administration — and does not subcontract.

QI, Sen's footprint consists almost exclusively of small blanket purchase agreement task orders under five recurring BPA vehicles held by the Bureau of Administration. The vendor has received 168 prime awards over the past several years, 100% concentrated with the Department of State Bureau of Administration (167 awards, $888 thousand combined potential value) and one additional award from the Department of State ($572). The work splits across five parent BPAs: vehicle 190PRL24A0187 carries 52 task orders valued at $28 thousand; vehicle 190PRL23A0187 carries 48 task orders valued at $32 thousand; vehicle 190PRL22A0187 carries 25 task orders valued at $26 thousand; vehicle 190PRL25A0187 carries 17 task orders valued at $6 thousand; and vehicle 190PRL21A0187 carries 13 task orders valued at $9 thousand. Individual task orders range from $55 to $7,411.82. Representative work includes a $1,971.98 BPA call for foreign language interpreting, translating, and informational products such as country profiles and human rights reports (October 2024); a $7,411.82 call for a China 2021 Human Rights Report (October 2021); and a $2,653.10 call for Chinese language services under DIILS task order one of one (October 2021).

QI, Sen holds four rolling BPA IDVs with the Bureau of Administration: a $250,000 ceiling multiple-award BPA running through September 30, 2026 (awarded October 1, 2024, with 16 task orders valued at approximately $7,727.43 to date); a $150,000 ceiling BPA that ran October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024; a $150,000 ceiling BPA that ran October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023; and a $100,000 ceiling BPA that ran October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. All work is performed in Washington, D.C. under firm fixed-price contractual arrangements. Activity peaked in 2023 (53 awards) and 2022 (49 awards), declining to 17 awards in 2024 and 1 award in 2025 year to date. The vendor's entire award category falls under NAICS translation and interpretation services and PSC support-administrative (translation and interpreting). Combined potential value across all 168 awards stands at $889 thousand, with $239 thousand obligated to date (27% realization). The low obligation rate reflects the indefinite-quantity nature of BPA contracts, where ceiling values are reserved but task orders pull funds as work is called.