TCS Interpreting, Inc.

TCS Interpreting, Inc., doing business as TCS Interpreting, is a minority-owned, woman-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, that provides American Sign Language interpretation, video remote interpreting, Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART), reader services, and translation support to federal agencies as a prime contractor. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open across its federal footprint, with recurring Total Small Business set-asides on select agency delivery orders.

TCS Interpreting operates across 100 distinct federal agencies, driven by a concentrated customer base anchored in civilian accessibility and reasonable-accommodation programs. The top five customers by award count account for 55% of recent awards: the Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service (247 awards, $13.6 million potential value), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (49 awards, $22.2 million), Defense Health Agency (49 awards, $557 thousand), Defense Human Resources Activity (30 awards, $630 thousand), and FEMA's Support Services Section (25 awards, $30.3 million). By dollar potential, FEMA Support Services Section and FEMA lead ($30.3 million and $22.2 million respectively), while IRS maintains significant volume with moderate per-award dollars, reflecting a high-transaction-count posture typical of small purchase orders and micro-task ordering.

TCS Interpreting's federal portfolio spans 733 recent prime awards with a combined potential value of $1.73 billion and combined obligated dollars of $82.3 million (5% execution rate). The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime (732 of 733 awards, 100% prime split) with a single recorded sub-award as a subcontractor to The MITRE Corporation on an FCC telecommunications relay services support project. The portfolio shows declining year-over-year award velocity—29 awards in 2022 declining to 5 in 2026—with 20 awards (combined potential value $19.4 million) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and facing recompete.

TCS Interpreting sits on three foundational parent vehicles. The Professional Services Schedule (PSS) carries 318 task orders valued at $102.3 million, the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) holds 174 task orders at $1.63 billion potential value, and a Blanket Purchase Agreement designated TIRNE13S00001 sustains 217 task orders at $8.7 million. The vendor maintains a $10 million Total Small Business BPA with the Executive Office of the President Office of Administration (awarded March 2023, completion March 2028), a strategic $7 million FEMA multi-year sourcing BPA (MAS-based, single-award), and a $1 million single-award USDA National Capital Region BPA (awarded January 2022, completion January 2027). The September 2026 EEOC Blanket Purchase Agreement ($250 thousand, 5-year term through September 2031) represents the most recent IDV award.

Concrete representative contract work includes a $6.87 million Naval Sea Systems Command delivery order (awarded March 2025, completion March 2030) for on-site ASL interpretation under MAS; a $4.3 million Internal Revenue Service purchase order (November 2021, ultimate completion November 2026) for relay conference captioning and video remote interpreting; a $3.86 million Department of Veterans Affairs delivery order (February 2022, completion May 2026) for VRI, relay conference captioning, and CART under Total Small Business set-aside; a $3.23 million Department of Labor delivery order (January 2022, completion January 2027) for RCC and VRI services under Total Small Business set-aside; and a $2.17 million Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency BPA call (January 2023, completion July 2026) for CAS on time-and-materials pricing. Smaller recent awards include a $230 thousand DHS S&T Directorate BPA call for ASL interpretation (September 2026, completion March 2028), a $1.98 million National Archives and Records Administration delivery order for sign language interpreting and CART (March 2025, completion March 2027), and a $682 thousand USCIS BPA call for sign language interpretation services (September 2024, completion September 2027).

Service Contract Inventory reporting (federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold) shows SCI-reported invoicing of $27.5 million across FY2022–FY2025, scaling from $2.8 million and 19.8 FTEs in FY2022 to a peak of $10.2 million and 126 FTEs in FY2024, then declining to $5.4 million across 99.8 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid median hourly rates on federal services contracts ran around $96.01/hr, with a spectrum spanning $56.65/hr at the 10th percentile through $186.82/hr at the 90th percentile, reflecting the range of service types (junior interpreters versus senior specialists and administrative support). TCS Interpreting self-performs substantially all work—SCI data shows 0% average sub-hours share across prime contracts—indicating the vendor builds and manages its own delivery workforce rather than leveraging subcontractor networks.

The vendor's NAICS footprint centers on translation and interpretation services (565 awards), with secondary exposure to other computer-related services (64 awards) and medical/dental/hospital equipment wholesaling (51 awards, likely reflecting equipment procurement for accessibility tooling). PSC coding aligns with interpretation and administrative support, with the largest tranche coded to support-administrative translation and interpreting (503 awards) and smaller volume to support-professional other (44 awards) and IT software (21 awards). This posture reflects a primarily services-delivery profile with ancillary goods procurement.

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