Rached, Olcay

Rached, Olcay, a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Great Falls, Virginia, delivers translation, interpretation, and language instruction services as a prime contractor to the Department of State, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across nearly 100 recent federal awards. The vendor is registered in SAM since 2007 and holds WOSB and woman-owned business certifications.

Rached, Olcay operates entirely within a single customer relationship: the Department of State's Bureau of Administration accounts for 95 of 96 awards ($1.4 million combined potential value), with one additional award to the Department of State proper for $880. All work is language services—translation, interpretation, language instruction, and cultural program support—delivered through five consecutive multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreements, each named "OLCAY RACHED LSA" and indexed as vehicle 190PRL21A0019 through 190PRL25A0019. The vendor's specialty is Turkish language capabilities, though the work encompasses other unspecified languages as well. Representative BPA calls from the past year include a $9,498.50 firm fixed-price call for language services awarded October 1, 2024 with performance through June 30, 2025; a $13,134 call awarded the same date for translation and interpretation through December 21, 2024; and an $880 call awarded October 1, 2025 for language services through October 2, 2025. Task orders range from under $100 to $15,075, with most falling in the $500 to $3,500 range.

Activity has been consistent but trending downward. The vendor received 25 awards in 2022 (peak year), 21 in 2024, 20 in 2023, 16 in 2021, and 1 award so far in 2025. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $442 thousand against $1.4 million in combined potential value, reflecting the typical gap between ceiling and invoiced value on small task orders. The top five BPA vehicles account for the entire footprint: vehicle 190PRL23A0019 carries 24 task orders ($334 thousand combined potential value), 190PRL25A0019 carries 21 task orders ($40 thousand), 190PRL24A0019 carries 19 task orders ($54 thousand), 190PRL22A0019 carries 12 task orders ($51 thousand), and 190PRL21A0019 carries 7 task orders ($8 thousand). Each BPA runs approximately twelve months with multiple-award status, allowing the Bureau of Administration to call on Rached, Olcay on an as-needed basis for short-duration language support across diplomatic, consular, and administrative operations, primarily performed in Washington, D.C.