Smiley Sim

Smiley Sim, a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Washington, DC, provides language translation and interpretation services to the Department of State as a prime contractor, competing entirely on full and open (non-set-aside) terms. All 38 awards in the source footprint are BPA calls issued by the Department of State Bureau of Administration across a series of multiple-award blanket purchase agreements.

Smiley Sim's customer concentration is total: the Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 37 of 38 awards ($831 thousand combined potential value), with one additional award from the Department of State proper ($7 thousand). The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Work is performed in Washington, DC and consists entirely of translation, interpretation, and language support services across State Department administrative and diplomatic initiatives. Representative work includes a $14,778 BPA call from October 2023 through December 2023 for language services, a $12,452 call from October 2021 through July 2022 supporting the Department's women and entrepreneurship initiatives, a $5,600 call placed October 1, 2024 through September 25, 2025, and a $7,416 BPA call issued October 1, 2025 for completion by July 3, 2026.

Smiley Sim holds four successive multiple-award blanket purchase agreements with the Bureau of Administration: a $100,000 ceiling BPA effective through September 30, 2022 (1 task order, $63 thousand combined potential value); a $150,000 ceiling BPA through September 30, 2023 (6 task orders, $24 thousand combined potential value); a $150,000 ceiling BPA through September 30, 2024 (4 task orders, $4 thousand combined potential value); and a current $250,000 ceiling BPA effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2026 (15 task orders, $23 thousand combined potential value). Individual task orders under these BPAs range from $100 to $14,778, with firm fixed-price terms and completion dates spanning from October 2024 through May 2025 on recent awards.

Activity surged sharply in 2024 (15 awards) from minimal volume in 2022–2023 (5 and 3 awards respectively), with the current $250,000 BPA driving substantial task-order frequency. Combined potential value across all 38 awards totals $838 thousand, with $188 thousand (22%) obligated as of the snapshot date. The vendor competes for discrete language-support requirements on an indefinite delivery basis, with no subcontractor relationships and no set-aside designations applied to any award.