Vakili Group-Languages & Media LLC

Vakili Group-Languages & Media LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Bethesda, Maryland, provides professional foreign language translation, interpretation, research, and media services exclusively as a prime contractor to the Department of State and its subordinate bureaus on full-and-open blanket purchase agreement calls with no set-aside designations applied across the portfolio.

The vendor's entire recent federal footprint derives from the Department of State Bureau of Administration, which accounts for 39 of 50 awards (98% of the award count and 94% of combined potential value at $741 thousand). Secondary customers include the U.S. Agency for Global Media Voice of America (8 awards, $40 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of State proper (2 awards, $2 thousand combined potential value). The vendor has worked with State since at least 2005 and maintains a tightly concentrated customer base with three distinct agencies in recent activity.

Vakili Group operates exclusively under multiple-award blanket purchase agreements with the Bureau of Administration, each renewed on October 1 of each fiscal year with ceiling values of $100 thousand to $250 thousand and fixed-price call orders issued against them. The current BPA (190PRL26A0176, awarded October 1, 2025, ceiling $250 thousand, completion September 30, 2027) is the primary vehicle; prior iterations include agreements at $150 thousand (fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2023) and $100 thousand (fiscal 2022). The vendor also holds a Voice of America BPA (BBG39A130021) against which 7 task orders worth $40 thousand have been issued. Across all BPAs, individual call orders range from $55 to $4,833.48 and are firm fixed price with short performance periods (typically two to four months).

Representative work illustrates the vendor's mission-critical scope. Operation Allies Welcome/SAF work (2021–2022) included multiple translation and media service calls totaling over $20 thousand to support Afghan refugee resettlement processing and integration. A $7,687.24 call funded research and drafting for the 2021 Human Rights Report on Iran. Language services calls throughout 2023–2025 ranged from $105 to $2,130 and supported State Department global operations, diplomatic communications, and country reporting programs. The vendor generated $137 thousand in obligated dollars against a $834 thousand combined potential value ceiling across the portfolio (16% obligation rate), reflecting the indefinite-delivery, as-needed character of BPA work where call orders are issued only as requirements arise.

Activity shows a surge in 2021 (13 awards tied to Operation Allies Welcome mobilization), followed by modulation to 6–14 awards per year in 2022–2023 and 3 awards in 2025 to date. The vendor is positioned entirely on State Bureau of Administration's renewal cycle and does not subcontract; all 50 awards are prime work with no sub-award component. The business model is mission-focused language and cultural-competency services for diplomatic and humanitarian State operations, with no diversification into other federal agencies or contracting vehicles.

Vakili Group provides translation, interpreting, proofreading, copywriting, and audio transcription services specializing in Farsi to English and other middle eastern languages. We provide both simultaneous and consecutive interpreting.