Tekle, Habtom

Tekle, Habtom, doing business as Pure Services, is a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Laurel, Maryland, that provides translation and interpretation services to the Department of State as a prime contractor operating entirely on full-and-open (non-set-aside) BPA calls. The vendor operates exclusively under Blanket Purchase Agreements issued by the Department of State's Bureau of Administration, holding a current multiple-award BPA ceiling of $250,000 running through September 30, 2026, with prior agreements at $150,000 ceilings in preceding fiscal years.

Pure Services' federal footprint is narrowly concentrated on Department of State work. The Bureau of Administration accounts for 16 of 21 total awards with $666 thousand in combined potential value, while the Department of State proper issued 5 awards valued at $4 thousand. All 21 awards are prime contracts or BPA calls; the vendor carries no subcontract work. The vendor's activity shows modest but steady growth — one award in 2021, two in 2022, three in 2023, and five awards each in 2024 and 2025 — though combined potential value remains modest at $671 thousand across the entire portfolio. To date, $21 thousand in dollars have been obligated, representing only 3 percent of combined potential value, indicating that many of these blanket agreements carry ceilings that have not yet been fully drawn.

Representative work includes five BPA calls from October 2025 to the Department of State, issued on the current $250,000 multiple-award agreement, each valued between $620 and $1,240 for language services with completion dates ranging from June 2026 through July 2026. Earlier work from October 2024 under a prior BPA iteration yielded four task orders each valued at $597 through August 2025. The vendor's capability portfolio, mapped to PSC Support-Administrative (Translation and Interpreting), consists entirely of translation and interpretation services performed in Washington, D.C. to support diplomatic communication. Place of performance is consistently Washington, D.C. across all awards.

The vendor's recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is tied to the October 1 renewal cycle for Bureau of Administration BPAs. The current $250,000 ceiling BPA runs through September 30, 2026, and all task orders issued under it carry completion dates between March 2025 and July 2026, placing the entire active workload at or near the edge of that window. Pure Services' narrow customer concentration and reliance on a single bureau's recurring BPA renewals creates both stability (an established vendor relationship spanning since at least 2022) and concentration risk — competitive losses on Bureau of Administration BPA awards would eliminate nearly 100 percent of the vendor's federal footprint.