Wood Kayo

Wood Kayo, doing business as Seaglass Interpreting, is a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Mountain View, California, that provides foreign language interpreting, translation, and program coordination services to the Department of State Bureau of Administration as a prime contractor on full-and-open (non-set-aside) BPA task orders.

Seaglass Interpreting operates entirely within a single customer relationship. The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 54 of 58 total awards ($1 million combined potential value), with the remaining four awards from the Department of State parent agency contributing $9 thousand. All work is procured through successive multiple-award BPAs under the same vehicle family (190PRL series), with no subcontract footprint or venture into other agencies or set-aside competitions. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements only.

The vendor's capability portfolio is narrowly specialized: interpreting and translation services, particularly for high-level diplomatic, defense, and foreign affairs events. Representative task order work includes a $4,944 call supporting POTUS travel to the June 2022 NATO Summit in Washington, DC; a $5,271 call for Japan Chu-Sam Kai coordination services; a $4,519 call for interpreting support at a trilateral defense ministers meeting; and multiple calls ranging from $800 to $9,600 for ongoing interpreting and program coordination across the Bureau's global initiatives. Descriptions in the award summaries reference past support for the 2022 NATO Summit, defense ministerial conferences, and technical discussions with international counterparts. Individual task orders are small in absolute value (median call value in the $4,000–$5,600 range) and short-duration, reflecting episodic demand for event-specific language support rather than sustained program work.

Vehicle position is static and concentrated. Five successive multiple-award BPAs in the 190PRL series (awarded in fiscal years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025) form the entire prime vehicle footprint, with the most recent BPA (190PRL25A0173, awarded October 1, 2024) carrying a $250 thousand ceiling through September 30, 2026. The three prior BPAs ceilinged at $100 thousand to $150 thousand each. Together, these five BPAs host 45 of 58 awards; the remaining 13 awards are individual contract line items under unspecified parent vehicles.

Activity has declined after a 2024 spike. Awards per year tracked at 12 (2021), 12 (2022), 6 (2023), 14 (2024), and 4 (2025 to date). The recompete cliff is minimal: only one award with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carries combined potential value of $3 thousand, indicating low near-term recompete exposure but also low near-term revenue visibility. Combined dollars obligated across all awards stand at $230 thousand against $1 million in combined potential value, a 22% utilization rate reflecting the episodic, task-order-driven nature of the relationship.

Performance is centered in Washington, DC, with periodic international travel to support summits and bilateral meetings (Tokyo for LTAMDS and Japan MLRS program management, for example). No subcontracting or teaming relationships appear in the award record. The vendor operates as a solo prime on a single-agency BPA ladder and does not cross into other federal customers, set-asides, or sub roles.