Stuart B. Consultants, Inc.

Stuart B. Consultants, Inc., doing business as Birnbaum Interpreting Services, is a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, that delivers American Sign Language interpretation, video remote interpreting, real-time captioning (CART), and spoken language interpretation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor operating predominantly under full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside awards on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

Birnbaum Interpreting Services operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of 515 awards), with no subcontractor footprint in its federal work. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on language accessibility services: on-site and remote ASL interpretation for meetings, training, and investigative proceedings; video remote interpreting for remote accessibility; Communication Access Realtime Translation for real-time text transcription; and spoken language interpretation across over 150 languages. Recent representative work includes a $2.95 million delivery order from the Office of the Chief Information Officer for CART and VRI services through February 2027; a $1.61 million FDA remote conference captioning delivery order through December 2027; a $727.68 million NIST sign language interpreting and real-time captioning delivery order through April 2028; and a $1.01 million GSA Office of Human Resources Management delivery order for ASL services at headquarters exercising Option Year 2 through March 2029.

Customer concentration is pronounced and volatile. The Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service accounts for 184 awards (35% of total awards) with $53.8 million in combined potential value, dominating both volume and dollars. The Executive Office of the President Office of Administration ranks second by potential value with $10.5 million across three awards. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command places third with 29 awards valued at $6.5 million. Together the top five agencies account for 54% of award count and 41% of potential value. The split between these two metrics reflects the IRS's reliance on many small-dollar individual task orders versus EOP's anchor contracts.

Birnbaum Interpreting Services holds a $23.12 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (Multiple Award Schedule) awarded January 26, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of January 25, 2027. This vehicle anchors the vendor's federal footprint; 300 task orders worth $79.7 million in combined potential value have been placed against it. The vendor also operates under agency-specific blanket purchase agreements: a $10 million multiple-award interpreting and captioning services BPA with the Office of Administration (March 2023 through March 2028); a $5 million single-award sign language interpretation BPA with Naval Sea Systems Command (June 2024 through June 2029); a $2.41 million single-award Federal Relay Services BPA with the Justice Management Division (February 2022 through September 2032); and smaller single-award BPAs with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ($750,000), Federal Communications Commission ($160,000), and others. The vendor also holds an indefinite delivery contract (TIRNO01D00001) with the Department of the Treasury, from which 26 task orders worth $21 million have been placed.

Activity has declined year over year: 30 awards in 2022, 21 in 2023, 25 in 2024, 14 in 2025, and 1 in 2026 (through mid-February). Twenty-one awards with combined potential value of $11 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to significant recompete activity. The majority of this recompete volume is driven by the vendor's numerous small task orders against the GSA Schedule and agency BPAs.

SCI-reported federal service contract invoicing, which captures contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods and micro-purchases, shows $3.5 million across FY2022–FY2024: $527 thousand in FY2022, $1.4 million in FY2023, and $1.6 million in FY2024. The SCI dataset reflects growing FTE delivery—2.3 FTEs in FY2022 to 7.5 FTEs in FY2024 across 19 prime records—indicating modest scale in federal-service-contract invoicing. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $93.92/hr through a median of $114.20/hr to a 90th percentile of $126.37/hr, consistent with mid-to-senior interpreter and CART provider labor rates in the federal market. The vendor performed all reported SCI work self, with zero sub-engagement on prime contracts.

Birnbaum Interpreting Services' award portfolio spans 92 distinct customer agencies, but concentration in the IRS and EOP creates asymmetric exposure: the IRS's 184 awards are typically small individual task orders, while EOP's contracts are larger and anchor revenue. The primary NAICS code is 541930 (Translation and Interpretation Services), with 447 of 515 awards falling into that category. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open awards on GSA Schedule vehicles, with no evidence of competing under 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other federal small-business set-aside categories. This posture limits the vendor's ability to leverage smaller set-aside vehicles but establishes it as a certified minority-owned small disadvantaged business capable of competing across most federal procurement channels.

Stuart B. Consultants, D.B.A. Birnbaum Interpreting Services (BIS), reached its first agreement with NOAA 26 years ago. Since then, BIS has developed an unparalleled database of nationally certified interpreters and captioners whose technical capabilities represent the vanguard of the access industry. In total, BIS provides:

? Onsite Sign Language Interpreting (SLI)

? Video Remote SLI

? Onsite Spoken Language Interpreting

? Transcription & Translation

? Onsite & Remote Captioning

? Over-the-Phone Interpreting

? Trainings & Counseling Services

? Consulting Services

Interpreting and captioning accreditations include but are not limited to:

? Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

? National Association of the Deaf

? Comprehensive Skills Certification

? Certificate of Interpretation

? Registered Professional Reporter

? Certified Real-Time Reporter

? Certified Real-Time Captioner

? National Court Reports Association