Romain Chatelain, Guerda

Romain Chatelain, Guerda, a minority-owned, woman-owned, Black American-owned sole proprietorship based in Washington, D.C., provides professional translation, interpretation, and linguistic analysis services to the Department of State as a prime contractor exclusively, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designation across its federal footprint.

The vendor operates as a specialized language-services provider under primary PSC Support–Administrative: Translation and Interpreting, with all 153 recent awards concentrated in this single capability area. The company has maintained a continuous relationship with the Department of State Bureau of Administration since 2006, initially registering in SAM in 2007 and transitioning through successive annual BPA renewals beginning in 2019. Recent representative work includes a $15,500 firm fixed-price BPA call order from October 2025 for general language services, a $14,328 call from October 2024 for translation and interpretation support, and an $8,300 call from October 2024 for professional linguistic analysis. The company also delivered a $1,236 call order and an $824 call order in October 2025, both for language services in support of the Bureau of Administration's operations.

Customer concentration is extreme and immobile: the Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 140 of 153 awards (95% of award count) and $1.2 million of the combined $1.3 million potential value. The Department of State proper holds 4 additional awards valued at $21 thousand, and the Department of State Office of Language Services holds 1 award, together covering 97% of all combined potential value. This vendor-customer relationship is a near-monopoly in scope — no secondary customer agency exists in the portfolio.

Romain Chatelain, Guerda holds successive seats on five Department of State Bureau of Administration language services BPAs, all multiple-award vehicles: the current BPA (190PRL25A0026, $250,000 ceiling, through September 2025) carries 41 task orders totaling $115 thousand; the prior-year BPA (190PRL24A0026, $250,000 ceiling, through September 2024) issued 38 task orders valued at $89 thousand; the 2023 BPA (190PRL23A0026, $150,000 ceiling, through September 2023) generated 29 task orders worth $210 thousand; the 2022 BPA (190PRL22A0026, $150,000 ceiling, through September 2022) produced 14 task orders for $42 thousand; and the 2021 BPA (190PRL21A0026, $150,000 ceiling, through September 2021) issued 8 task orders totaling $15 thousand. Each BPA is renewed annually by the Bureau of Administration, with individual call orders ranging from under $100 to over $14,000 in firm-fixed-price value. The vendor invoiced $482 thousand (38% of combined potential value) across all awards in the source data window.

Activity has grown significantly from 16 awards in 2021 to a peak of 39 awards in 2023, followed by sustained volume of 38 awards in 2024. The source data captures only 4 awards in 2025 as of the October 2025 snapshot. The consistent annual BPA ceiling-value structure ($100,000 to $250,000 per year) and the vendor's sustained participation suggest stable, recurring task-order demand from a single customer agency with no recompete-pipeline risk visible in the source — the vendor has held the same customer relationship and vehicle lineage continuously since at least 2019. The vendor operates exclusively on a prime basis; no subcontract work appears in the award history.