Kaoru Tamura

Kaoru Tamura, a woman-owned, minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Monterey Park, California, provides foreign language interpretation and translation services to the Department of State as a prime contractor exclusively through blanket purchase agreements. The vendor operates entirely as a prime (100% of recent awards) with no subcontract activity, competing full-and-open — no set-aside designations appear across the award footprint despite the vendor's WOSB and SDB certifications.

All recent work concentrates with a single customer. The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 15 awards (90% of volume, $584 thousand combined potential value), with the broader Department of State contributing 4 additional awards ($5 thousand). The vendor holds four separate multiple-award blanket purchase agreements with the State Department's Bureau of Administration: vehicle 190PRL25A0693 (ceiling $250 thousand, through September 2026), vehicle 190PRL24A0693 (ceiling $150 thousand, through September 2024), vehicle 190PRL23A0693 (ceiling $150 thousand, through September 2023), and vehicle 190PRL19A0693 and 190PRL18A0693 at smaller ceilings. Task orders against these BPAs are firm fixed price calls typically valued between $800 and $2,800, with completion dates within the same fiscal year. Representative recent work includes a $2,060 BPA call (October 1, 2025, completion March 19, 2026) for interpretation and translation services supporting diplomatic and international communication, and two $824 calls (October 1, 2025) for language services with later completion dates in 2026. Work is performed in Washington, DC.

Activity is episodic — four awards in 2025, two in 2024, three in both 2023 and 2022, and one in 2020 — for a total of 21 prime awards (21 BPA calls against IDVs) carrying a combined potential value of $597 thousand. Only $47 thousand has been obligated across all awards, representing 8% of the combined potential value. The vendor's recurring presence on State Department language-services BPAs since at least 2022 reflects consistent demand for standing interpretation and translation capacity, though individual call values are small and completion occurs within a single fiscal year. All category concentration sits with translation and interpretation services (21 awards under PSC Support-Administrative: Translation and Interpreting).

Japanese & English interpretation and translation services, specializing in court, legal and litigation