Lina Safar

Lina Safar, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business and sole proprietorship based in Tampa, Florida, provides foreign language translation, interpretation, and quality control services to the Department of State as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under multiple-award blanket purchase agreements.

The vendor's entire federal footprint concentrates on the Department of State Bureau of Administration, which accounts for 72 of 74 awards carrying a combined potential value of approximately $1 million, with the remaining 2 awards from the Department of State proper valued at $31 thousand. All work involves language services — translation, interpretation, quality assurance, training development, and program support across the Bureau's diplomatic, management, and public engagement initiatives. Work is performed in Washington, D.C. The source describes Lina Safar as holding multiple-award BPA contracts with the Department of State since at least 2019, with task orders historically ranging from $60 to over $29,000. Representative awards include a $15,500 language services BPA call from the Department of State dated October 1, 2025 (completion May 3, 2026), a $13,731 translation and interpretation delivery order from the Bureau of Administration dated October 1, 2024 (completion May 10, 2025), and a $14,181 language and quality assurance services call from the Bureau of Administration dated October 1, 2023 (completion August 24, 2024).

Lina Safar holds five primary BPA vehicles, all issued by the Bureau of Administration: BPA 190PRL25A0359 (seven task orders, $71 thousand combined potential value, active through September 30, 2026), BPA 190PRL24A0359 (five task orders, $52 thousand), BPA 190PRL23A0359 (ten task orders, $54 thousand, completed September 30, 2023), BPA 190PRL22A0359 (twenty task orders, $38 thousand, completed September 30, 2022), and BPA 190PRL21A0359 (nineteen task orders, $19 thousand, completed September 30, 2022). The current BPA ceiling stands at $250,000 for the 2024–2026 cycle.

Activity declined sharply after 2021. The vendor received 31 awards in 2021, 11 in 2022, then fell to 6 awards each in 2023 and 2024 before flattening to 2 in 2025 year to date. Only 1 award (combined potential value $16 thousand) faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure. Combined potential value across all 74 awards is approximately $1 million, with $395 thousand obligated to date (38% of potential value), indicating modest contract velocity and invoice volume relative to ceiling availability.