Vital Signs, Llc.

Vital Signs LLC, a woman-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Silver Spring, Maryland, provides American Sign Language interpreting, Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART), captioning, transcription, and reader services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across 100% of its recent awards. The company operates exclusively under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) and holds four primary Blanket Purchase Agreements with the Department of Agriculture, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, with combined BPA ceilings exceeding $7.5 million.

Vital Signs' customer footprint is concentrated in civilian accessibility and reasonable-accommodation work. The top five agencies by award count account for 42% of recent awards: the Department of Agriculture Office of Operations (36 awards, $10.1 million combined potential value) leads by volume, followed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (18 awards), the Department of Transportation Immediate Office of the Secretary (15 awards, $22.5 million combined potential value), the National Science Foundation (10 awards), and the Agricultural Marketing Service (7 awards). By potential-value share, the Department of Transportation dominates at $22.5 million across 15 awards—a $1.8 million delivery order and thirteen task orders under IDIQ DTOS5917D00500 for DOT-wide sign language interpreting services in Washington, D.C. and outside the region. The Department of Agriculture Office of Operations ranks second at $10.1 million across 36 awards, primarily BPA calls for sign language interpreting as reasonable accommodation for NCR employees. Vital Signs also holds a $19.9 million delivery order with the Internal Revenue Service (awarded July 2025, running through July 2030) for nationwide sign language interpreting and CART services, and delivers a $1 million delivery order to the Bureau of Reclamation for individual ASL interpreter services in Denver through April 2031.

Vital Signs places 82 task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, generating $32.5 million in combined potential value. It also operates 23 task orders under an USDA indefinite-delivery contract (AG3144C140004, $1.2 million combined potential value) and 13 delivery orders under the DOT IDIQ DTOS5917D00500 ($12.1 million combined potential value). Recent representative work includes a $244 thousand BPA call from USDA Office of Operations for Target Center sign language interpreting services in Washington, D.C. (awarded May 2026), a $172 thousand purchase order from the USDA Agricultural Research Service for nationwide accessibility services across 40 locations supporting 75 ARS employees with hearing disabilities (awarded February 2026), and a $61.9 thousand delivery order from the Bureau of Reclamation for ASL interpreter services in Denver (awarded September 2025). The source also documents a $90 thousand USDA NCR BPA call (September 2025) and a $517 thousand USCIS Detroit Field Office BPA call for sign language interpreter support (April 2025).

Activity declined markedly after 2023. Awards per year ran at 11 in 2022, dropped to 5 in 2023, recovered to 7 in 2024 and 8 in 2025, then fell to 4 through mid-2026. Combined potential value across all 206 awards totals $59.7 million, with $22.2 million obligated (37% of potential). Only five awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $791 thousand), indicating limited near-term recompete pressure. Vital Signs operates as a pure prime contractor—zero sub-awards across the entire portfolio. On SCI-reportable service contracts (federal services above $150,000), Vital Signs invoiced $4.8 million across FY2022–FY2025: $1.3 million in FY2022 (7.6 FTEs), $2.2 million in FY2023 (12.0 FTEs), $872 thousand in FY2024 (4.9 FTEs), and $401 thousand in FY2025 (2.7 FTEs). Across SCI prime contracts, the company self-performed all work with zero subcontractor engagement (0% sub-hours share). Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ran a narrow band: median around $86/hr, with rates spanning $84/hr to $88/hr across the 10th and 90th percentiles. The vendor's award portfolio is concentrated in Translation and Interpretation Services NAICS (169 awards) and Support-Administrative Translation and Interpreting PSC codes (137 awards), reflecting a specialist positioning in federal accessibility services with no meaningful presence in defense, IT, or engineering work.

Vital Signs LLC provides Sign Language Interpreting Services, Speech-to-Text Transcribing Services (CART, C-Print, TyepWell), and Reader Services for the Blind. Services are provided both on-site and remotely.