Estela Zaffaroni

Estela Zaffaroni Translation And Simultaneous Interpretation Division, a woman-owned, minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned sole proprietorship based in Alexandria, Virginia, supplies translation and simultaneous interpretation services to the Department of State as a prime contractor exclusively on full-and-open, non-set-aside task orders. The vendor holds a 100% prime award footprint with no subcontracting activity.

Estela Zaffaroni operates as the sole owner and performer of language services for federal diplomacy, bilateral defense meetings, foreign policy programs, and international events. Recent work includes a $1,236 firm fixed price BPA call from the Department of State (award date October 1, 2025, completion May 13, 2026) for translation and simultaneous interpretation services in Washington, DC; a $4,896 task order (October 1, 2021) supporting the Summit of the Americas in-person interpretation; and a $1,129.50 call (October 1, 2021) for US-Brazil bilateral meeting on trafficking in persons. The vendor delivers Portuguese, French, and Spanish language services and performs language proficiency testing and retesting for State Department personnel.

Customer concentration is extreme: 79 of 80 awards and $810 thousand of the $811 thousand combined potential value flow to the Department of State Bureau of Administration, with one additional $1 thousand award to the Department of State proper. All awards are BPA calls against successive annual or multi-year blanket purchase agreements held by Zaffaroni with the Bureau of Administration. The vendor currently sits on a $250 thousand BPA (award date October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2026); previously held a $150 thousand BPA (October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024); a $150 thousand BPA (October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023); and a $100 thousand BPA (October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022). Task orders issued against these vehicles range from $150 to $6,135, with individual calls typically in the $600 to $2,400 range for discrete interpretation or translation events.

Activity spiked in 2022 (31 awards) and has since moderated to 11–15 awards annually in 2023 and 2024, with one award recorded in 2025 to date. Combined dollars obligated across all eighty awards total $161 thousand (20% of combined potential value), indicating significant task order issuance at values below ceiling. No recompete cliff exposure is present in the source data; the current BPA runs through September 30, 2026.