Sim Fay

Sim Fay, a minority-owned woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Arlington, Virginia, delivers foreign language translation and interpretation services to the Department of State as a prime contractor under blanket purchase agreements, competing full-and-open without set-asides. Sim Fay is an Asian-Pacific American-owned, woman-owned business structured as a sole proprietorship.

Sim Fay's federal work is entirely specialized in language services. The vendor holds three stacked multiple-award BPAs with the Department of State's Bureau of Administration, with ceiling values of $150 thousand (awarded October 1, 2022, expiring September 30, 2023), $150 thousand (awarded October 1, 2023, expiring September 30, 2024), and $250 thousand (awarded October 1, 2024, expiring September 30, 2026). Task orders issued under these vehicles cover foreign language translation and interpretation in Spanish, French, Mandarin, and Arabic to support diplomatic meetings, logistical coordination, media services, and routine translation needs. Representative call orders include a $2,800 task order (awarded October 1, 2024) for language services, a $2,400 task order (awarded October 1, 2024), and an $824 task order (awarded October 1, 2025). All awards carry firm fixed-price structures with no set-aside designation.

Customer concentration is near-absolute with the Department of State. The Bureau of Administration accounts for 74 awards and $751 thousand in combined potential value across 100% of Sim Fay's recent award footprint, with three additional awards to the Department of State proper totaling $2 thousand. The vendor holds positions on five stacked BPA vehicles, with the largest volume under BPA 190PRL23A0558 (22 task orders, $20 thousand), BPA 190PRL25A0558 (22 task orders, $28 thousand), and BPA 190PRL24A0558 (13 task orders, $14 thousand). Activity was volatile across the past five years—nine awards in 2021 rose to 23 in 2022, contracted to 14 in 2023, recovered to 20 in 2024, then fell to three in 2025—reflecting task-order issuance patterns rather than recompete events. All 77 awards in the portfolio are coded to PSC "Support—Administrative: Translation and Interpreting" and NAICS "Translation and Interpretation Services." The combined potential value of $754 thousand across 77 awards reflects the small individual ceiling values characteristic of language-services task orders under standing BPA vehicles. Of that potential value, $104 thousand (14%) has been obligated, indicating low invoice-rate maturity or recent award issuance across the portfolio.