ZHU Marty

ZHU Marty, a sole proprietorship based in Arlington, Virginia, provides translation, interpretation, and linguistics support services to the Department of State as a prime contractor exclusively under blanket purchase agreements, with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

ZHU Marty operates 100% as a prime contractor—no subcontract activity—and serves a single customer: the Department of State's Bureau of Administration. The vendor holds five active and recent BPAs with ceilings ranging from $100,000 to $250,000, spanning multiple award periods from 2021 through 2026. Task orders issued against these vehicles have ranged from $800 to over $15,000, with work performed in Washington, D.C. Representative recent awards include a $14,880 BPA call (October 1, 2025, completion March 28, 2026), a $14,925 call (October 1, 2024, completion November 8, 2025), and multiple $800 to $15,375 calls issued throughout 2023 and 2024 under earlier BPA cycles. All work is translation and interpretation support to facilitate diplomatic communication between State Department personnel and foreign counterparts. One outlier award—a $9,056 BPA call dated October 1, 2021—was designated for legal and healthcare services rather than language work, suggesting historical scope variation within the Bureau of Administration relationship.

ZHU Marty's customer concentration is total: 27 of 30 awards (90% of the award count) flow to the Department of State Bureau of Administration, accounting for $1.1 million in combined potential value. A single additional award ($15,000) goes to the Department of State as a distinct entity, representing the remaining potential value at State.

Activity peaked in 2023 with eleven awards, declining to five in 2024 and one in 2025 through the source date, suggesting a contraction in task order velocity or possibly a consolidation of the underlying BPA vehicle portfolio. The vendor reported $219,000 in combined dollars obligated against $1.1 million in combined potential value, implying a 20% realization rate. The five primary parent BPAs have generated 22 task orders totaling $210,000 in combined potential value, with the current-period BPA 190PRL25A0437 ($250,000 ceiling) carrying five task orders worth $74,000.

ZHU Marty is a full-and-open (non-set-aside) vendor with no identified subcontractors. The sole-proprietorship structure, narrow customer base, and small-dollar award profile position it as a specialized language-services provider with deep State Department process knowledge but limited pipeline beyond the Bureau of Administration's periodic task order releases. All 30 awards fall into the same PSC category (Support-Administrative: Translation and Interpreting).