Ruth Weinfeld

Ruth Weinfeld, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and woman-owned, Hispanic American-owned sole proprietorship based in Durango, Colorado, delivers translation and interpretation services exclusively to the Department of State Bureau of Administration as a prime contractor on blanket purchase agreements, with no subcontract footprint and no federal set-aside designations used across the award portfolio.

The vendor holds a tightly concentrated customer base consisting of a single federal agency — the Department of State Bureau of Administration — which accounts for 57 of 58 total awards ($773 thousand combined potential value) and 100 percent of the procurement concentration by both volume and dollars. All work is performed in Washington, D.C. and falls under the single PSC category of Translation and Interpretation Services. Ruth Weinfeld competes on a full-and-open basis, with no set-aside protection applied to any prime award in the portfolio.

The vendor's relationship with the State Department operates through multiple rolling blanket purchase agreement vehicles. The active portfolio includes a $250 thousand, multiple-award BPA (established October 1, 2024, expiring September 30, 2026) with four task orders to date totaling $1 thousand in combined potential value; a $150 thousand BPA (October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024) that generated 15 task orders ($65 thousand combined potential value); a $150 thousand BPA (October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023) that funded 22 task orders and $350 thousand in combined invoicing; and a preceding $100 thousand BPA (2021–2022) with 5 task orders. Individual call orders range from $55 to $165 thousand, with firm fixed-price structure and performance windows of two weeks to nine months. Representative work includes a $6,022 call for translation and interpretation services supporting diplomatic missions globally (awarded October 1, 2023), a $13,134 language services call supporting the Bureau's global operations (October 1, 2023), a $165 thousand language services order (October 1, 2022), and discrete advisory services including $8,350 for interfaith dialogue support and $1,114.90 for post-assignment program analysis (October 1, 2022).

Activity shows a sharp peak in 2022 (32 awards) followed by sustained but lower volume in 2023 (15 awards), declining to 4 awards in 2024 and 1 award in 2025. Combined potential value across all 58 awards is $773 thousand, with $123 thousand obligated (16 percent conversion). The vendor has absorbed $30 thousand in combined potential value from awards with ultimate completion dates in the prior 24-month window, representing recompete opportunity in the near term. All three BPAs nearing or at expiration (the 2023–2024 vehicle expired September 30, 2024; the 2024–2026 vehicle extends through September 2026) signal potential contract-renewal cycles and recompete exposure.

Translation and interpreting Brazilian Portuguese into English, Spanish and French into Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese into English