Translating Services, Inc.

Translating Services, Inc., operating as Lazar Translating & Interpreting, is a woman-owned small disadvantaged business providing Spanish-to-English transcription and translation services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and single-award blanket purchase agreements. The company competes across both set-aside and full-and-open categories, with recent work split between Total Small Business set-asides (Social Security Administration transcription contracts) and competitive delivery orders on open vehicles (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Agriculture). Headquartered in Woodland Hills, California, Translating Services maintains federal contracting experience dating to 2002 and holds WOSB and small disadvantaged business certifications.

The company's customer base is concentrated across civilian and defense agencies but dominated by niche transcription and translation relationships. The top five customers by potential value account for 88% of the combined potential-value footprint and include the Department of the Army ($13.4 million across six awards), the Defense Health Agency ($7.9 million across five awards), the GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($4.3 million across two awards), the Social Security Administration ($2.3 million across sixteen awards), and the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection ($793 thousand across thirty-seven awards). By award count, SSA ranks fourth with sixteen awards, but the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection leads volume at thirty-seven orders across $793 thousand in combined value, reflecting high-volume low-dollar transcription and translation tasking. This concentration divergence — Army and Defense Health anchoring dollars while Customs and Border Protection anchors count — indicates a mixed portfolio of high-value defense translation work and repetitive, lower-dollar administrative transcription.

Recent awards include a $153,910 SSA BPA call (Option Year 4, completion May 9, 2027) for Spanish-to-English hearing recordings transcription under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, a $99,500 NIST delivery order (completion November 30, 2027) for Spanish-to-English translation supporting National Construction Safety Team investigations, and a $139,580 SSA task order (completion May 9, 2026) under the company's single-award $688,567.50 SSA blanket purchase agreement. The company holds a $3 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (July 27, 2021 through July 26, 2031) covering translation and interpretation services across over thirty languages at per-word rates of $0.10 to $0.27 and hourly interpretation rates of $100 to $200. The vast majority of recent work — 149 task orders — flows through the Multiple Award Schedule, with twenty-six additional task orders under the Professional Services Schedule. Only two awards face completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $253 thousand), signaling low recompete exposure in that window. Activity levels have remained modest and flat over the past five years (one to three awards annually from 2022 through 2026), with all 164 awards in the source footprint structured as prime contracts across 42 distinct federal customer agencies.

We translate and interpret over 100 languages, providing page layout, design, typesetting and printing in each and every language. Our DTP capabilities make us the single, reliable, professional source for all our clients' foreign communications needs.