Translation Excellence Inc.

Translation Excellence Inc.'s Language Services Division, doing business as Translation Excellence Inc., is a minority-owned, SBA 8(a) certified and HUBZone-designated small business delivering sign language interpretation, transcription, multilingual translation, and language coaching services to federal agencies as a prime contractor operating primarily under small business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles. Headquartered in Aurora, Colorado, and registered as a federal contractor since 2011, Translation Excellence competes across both 8(a) sole-source and competitive set-aside vehicles as well as unrestricted multiple-award schedule procurements.

Translation Excellence operates exclusively as a prime contractor—176 recent awards across the award portfolio carry no sub-award footprint, and the vendor self-performs all federal service work without subcontractor engagement. The concrete capability portfolio centers on sign language interpretation (in-person, platform, Video Remote Interpreting, and Computer Assisted Real Time Captioning), English-to-English and foreign-language transcription, document translation including specialized technical and medical translation (freeze-dried plasma documents, foreign inspectional reports, regulatory filings), and language instruction. Representative work includes a $2.26 million 8(a) sole-source definitive contract with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for transcription and translation of investigative interview audio and video (awarded September 2025, running through September 2030); a $2.01 million 8(a) sole-source contract with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for language translation, interpretation, and multilingual desktop publishing (October 2025 through September 2030); a $1.9 million 8(a) sole-source definitive with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for Spanish instruction and translation to deportation officers (February 2023 through February 2028); a $2.17 million 8(a) sole-source transportation security contract for sign language interpretation (November 2022 through January 2028); and a $1.28 million 8(a) sole-source delivery order with the U.S. Secret Service for sign language interpreting support (April 2024 through April 2029).

Customer concentration tilts heavily toward civilian agencies and immigration authorities. The top five funding agencies by award count cover 69% of all awards: Navy SECNAV Criminal Investigative Service Quantico leads by volume at 54 awards but carries only $65 thousand in combined potential value (reflecting consistent micro-task transcription ordering at $200–$7,500 per call), followed by the FDA (30 awards, $12.9 million), the IRS (16 awards, $34.6 million), NASA Shared Services Center (13 awards, $12.2 million), and the CDC (8 awards, $7.2 million). By dollar ranking, the Executive Office for Immigration Review anchors the portfolio with a $35 million IDIQs ceiling, followed by the IRS at $34.6 million, the FDA at $12.9 million, and NASA at $12.2 million—these four customers represent 70% of combined potential value. The two rankings expose distinct customer profiles: Navy SECNAV CIS is a high-frequency, low-dollar customer (transcription call-outs), while immigration and tax authority work carries large, long-duration delivery orders and blanket purchase agreements.

Translation Excellence holds position on multiple GSA Schedule vehicles and single- and multiple-award blanket purchase agreements across customer agencies. The primary ordering vehicle is the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (141 task orders, $51.8 million combined potential value), which gates access to civilian agencies including the IRS, FDA, NASA, and others. The vendor also holds an Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Executive Office for Immigration Review (28 task orders, $4.3 million combined potential value) awarded February 2026 under total small business set-aside for transcription support services in immigration court proceedings, with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2030. Translation Excellence maintains a single-award $8.5 million NASA BPA (BPA 80NSSC22AA012, now with 10 task orders valued at $3.7 million and completion through September 2027) for sign language interpreter services; a single-award $10 million Executive Office of the President BPA for interpreting and captioning services (March 2023 through March 2028); a single-award $2.8 million USDA Farm Production and Conservation BPA for limited English proficiency services (April 2023 through April 2028); and a single-award $30 million Executive Office for Immigration Review IDIQ for transcription services (February 2026 through December 2030, total small business set-aside). The vendor also holds multiple-award blanket purchase agreements with the Defense Department Office of the Secretary ($700,000, April 2025–April 2030), Defense Contract Management Agency ($714,285, January 2024–January 2029), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ($1 million, May 2024–April 2029), Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement ($2 million, May 2022–May 2023), Naval Sea Systems Command ($249,000, May 2025–May 2030), and a terminated arrangement with the U.S. Mission in Mexico. These vehicles enable task-order-driven work from civilian and defense customers.

Activity has declined modestly year over year—28 awards in 2022 down to 12 through September 2026—with twelve awards (combined potential value $12.4 million) completing within the next twenty-four months and therefore exposing recompete cycles. The vendor's customer concentration and reliance on sole-source 8(a) vehicles and the GSA Schedule mitigates some recompete pressure; however, the large $35 million and $30 million IDIQs with the Executive Office for Immigration Review and the $34.6 million IRS portfolio represent material renewal exposure.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue shows $29.5 million in total federal service-contract revenue across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2023 peak at $9.6 million and FY2025 declining to $5.8 million. The SCI dataset captures a subset of Translation Excellence's federal activity—most micro-purchases and call-level work below the $150,000 reporting threshold (such as Navy SECNAV transcription calls at $200–$7,500) are excluded. SCI-reported FTE workforce trajectory ran 36.7 FTEs in FY2022, peaked at 41.7 FTEs in FY2023, and contracted to 21.4 FTEs in FY2025, reflecting downward utilization momentum. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $62.34/hr (entry-level transcription work) through a median of $111.91/hr to a 90th percentile of $374.78/hr (specialized interpretation and technical translation). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor engaged no subcontractor hours, confirming the self-performance posture observed in the prime contract award portfolio.

Translation Excellence Inc. competes predominantly under 8(a) sole-source and competitive small business set-asides on definitive contracts and delivery orders with immigration, tax, and health agencies, with full-and-open multiple-award schedule and BPA task-order work feeding civilian agency standing needs. The vendor's reliance on 8(a) designation across its largest-dollar awards (USCIS, NRC, ICE, TSA, Secret Service) and on HUBZone eligibility across smaller rural and regional opportunities positions the company as a specialist federal contractor rather than a general-market services firm.

Provide translation of hard copy and digital documents, websites, software localization, and desktop publishing. Interpretation services include ASL Interpreting, Consecutive Interpreting, conference Interpreting, Over-the-Phone Interpreting (OPI), Remote Simultaneous Interpreting (RSI) and voiceovers. Interpreting equipment is available for rent, including booths, radio transmitters, and receivers. Our linguists are subject matter experts (SME), and highly experienced professional quality control managers to ensure that our clients receive quality service that is second to none.