Shawkat Nabil

Shawkat Nabil, a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Houston, Texas, delivers translation, interpretation, cultural advising, and subject matter expertise services to the Department of State as a prime contractor exclusively through blanket purchase agreement task orders, with no set-aside designations applied.

Nabil operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of awards) and competes in full-and-open procurements without reliance on set-aside categories. The vendor's federal footprint is narrow but consistent: all 49 awards over the past several years derive from a single customer, the Department of State Bureau of Administration, issued through multiple-award blanket purchase agreements. The most recent activity includes a $250,000 BPA awarded October 1, 2024, running through September 30, 2026, which supplanted earlier BPAs valued at $150,000 (FY 2023–2024), $150,000 (FY 2022–2023), and $100,000 (FY 2021–2022). Under these vehicles, Nabil receives frequent small task orders for language services spanning translation, interpretation, cultural consultation, and technical regulation advisory work in support of State Department diplomatic and administrative operations.

Representative work includes a $6,800 firm-fixed-price task order awarded October 1, 2024 under the current BPA for ongoing language services through May 2025; a $4,279 task order issued October 1, 2022 for translation and interpretation support; and a $2,281.50 task order from October 1, 2021 for Arabic text data services in Jordan. Task order values cluster in the low hundreds to low thousands of dollars, with individual ceilings ranging from $55 to $6,800. All work is performed in Washington, D.C. or in-country at overseas mission sites.

The vendor's award count peaked in 2022 with 18 orders and has declined to six in 2024 and one in 2025, though the combined potential value across all 49 awards remains $723,000 with approximately $73,000 obligated to date (10% conversion rate). Customer concentration is absolute: the Bureau of Administration accounts for 48 of 49 awards and all $723,000 in combined potential value, with a single $198 generic State Department award comprising the remainder. The primary capability coding is PSC Support–Administrative (Translation and Interpreting) and NAICS 541930 (Translation and Interpretation Services). Nabil carries no subcontract footprint and holds no seats on government-wide vehicles or agency-wide IDIQs; work flows entirely through State-issued BPAs renewed annually on October 1.