Sinonym Consulting, LLC

Sinonym Consulting, LLC, a minority-owned and woman-owned small business based in Vienna, Virginia, provides translation, interpretation, localization, and media monitoring services to the federal government as a prime contractor. The firm competes full-and-open with no socioeconomic set-asides across its customer base.

Sinonym operates almost exclusively through the Department of State Bureau of Administration's blanket purchase agreements for language services. Of 86 total awards in the source data, 81 are with the State Department Bureau of Administration (96% of activity), generating $823 thousand in combined potential value. The remaining five awards span the Department of State generally (four awards, $3 thousand) and the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Offices (one award, $2 thousand for Mandarin interpreter services during grand jury proceedings in January 2024). The portfolio is highly concentrated: the Bureau of Administration accounts for 100% of combined potential value across the customer base.

Sinonym holds four successive multiple-award BPAs with the State Department Bureau of Administration under contract line item NI MEGGERS LSA, each with climbing ceilings and one-year performance periods: $100 thousand (October 2021–September 2022), $150 thousand (October 2022–September 2023), $150 thousand (October 2023–September 2024), and $250 thousand (October 2024–September 2026). Against these IDIQs, Sinonym secures dozens of small firm-fixed-price calls annually, ranging from $400 to $21,200 per task order. The top three vehicles by task-order count are the fiscal 2024 BPA (32 task orders, $64 thousand), the fiscal 2025 BPA (22 task orders, $58 thousand), and the fiscal 2023 BPA (16 task orders, $25 thousand). Representative work includes a $21,200 firm-fixed-price call for language services supporting the Bureau's diplomatic engagement and cross-cultural exchange programs (October 2024), an $8,400 call for translation and interpretation services (October 2023), and a $7,200 call for language services supporting the Department's administrative operations (October 2024).

Activity surged from 2021 to 2023 (4 awards in 2021 to 34 in 2023) but contracted sharply in 2024 (19 awards) and has remained minimal through the first quarter of fiscal 2025 (4 awards year-to-date as of 15 July 2026). Combined potential value across all 86 awards stands at $829 thousand, with only $179 thousand obligated to date (22% execution rate). Sinonym competes entirely in NAICS 541930 (Translation and Interpretation Services) and PSC R799 (Support–Administrative: Translation and Interpreting). The firm has no subcontract footprint and does not hold positions on government-wide vehicles outside the State Department BPAs.