Certified for Your Diversity & Small Business Goals
Frederick Interpreting Agency is a Deaf-owned, SBE, DBE, and MBE certified language services firm. One certified vendor for interpreting, translation, and captioning — with the documentation and reporting your compliance office expects.
Three Certifications, One Vendor File
Current certificates and numbers accompany our capability statement.
Small Business Enterprise
Counts toward small business reserve programs and small-procurement preferences on state and local contracts.
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
Eligible for DBE participation goals on federally assisted contracts — with the full scope performed directly by FIA.
Minority Business Enterprise
Counts toward MBE participation goals on state and institutional contracts, and toward corporate supplier-diversity spend.
Goal Credit That Actually Performs
Certification only helps your program if the certified firm does the work. FIA delivers the full language-access scope — ASL and spoken language interpreting, certified document translation, CART captioning — through our own 400-interpreter network and in-house scheduling team. No brokering the scope out, no commercially-thin participation.
For contracting officers and primes, that means utilization that stands up in an audit and a vendor who answers the phone: our scheduling team confirms most requests within hours, and a Deaf-owned firm brings lived accessibility expertise to exactly the scopes where agencies need it.
- Full scope performed directly — a commercially useful function
- Utilization reporting on your compliance cadence
- W-9, COIs, and certificate copies same business day on request
- Vendor-portal registrations completed promptly
- One award covers on-site regionally and remote nationwide
Built for Public-Sector Buying
What agencies and primes get beyond the certificates.
Audit-ready participation
Direct performance of the scope means DBE/MBE utilization your compliance office can document without caveats.
Small-business responsiveness
Decisions and confirmations in hours, not procurement cycles — most requests are confirmed within 2-4 business hours.
Paperwork without friction
Capability statement, W-9, insurance certificates, and cert copies delivered fast; portals and onboarding forms completed promptly.
One vendor, whole scope
Interpreting, translation, and CART on a single award — fewer vendors to certify, register, and manage.
Local presence, national reach
Headquartered in Frederick with on-site coverage across MD, DC, and Northern Virginia — and remote services in all 50 states.
Deaf-owned expertise
Accessibility scopes delivered by a firm that lives them — credibility with the communities your programs serve.
How to Engage FIA
From first contact to counted utilization.
Request our capability statement
One page with certifications, NAICS, services, coverage, and differentiators — plus certificate copies for your file.
Register us as a vendor
Send your onboarding portal or forms; we complete vendor registration, W-9, and insurance documentation promptly.
Start with a task order or pilot
A single event, a document batch, or a month of scheduled coverage — sized so your team can evaluate performance directly.
Count on reporting support
We provide the utilization documentation your diversity-spend and DBE goal tracking requires, on your cadence.
Reviewing language access for a public program? See how we already serve government agencies across the region — courts, benefits offices, public meetings, and constituent services — then request the capability statement for your vendor file.
Procurement FAQ
The questions contracting officers and primes ask first.
Which certifications does FIA hold?
Frederick Interpreting Agency is certified as a Small Business Enterprise (SBE), Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) through Maryland's business certification programs. Current certification copies and numbers are provided with our capability statement on request.
What is your NAICS code?
Our primary NAICS code is 541930 — Translation and Interpretation Services. Related scopes include real-time captioning (CART) and certified document translation delivered under the same code.
Can FIA count toward DBE or MBE participation goals?
Yes. We perform the full interpreting, translation, and captioning scope directly with our own network and staff — a commercially useful function, not a pass-through — so utilization counts the way your compliance office needs it to.
Do you work as a subcontractor to primes?
Regularly. Primes bring us in for language access scopes on government and institutional contracts; we provide certification documentation for your bid, then deliver and report utilization through the life of the award.
What geography can you cover?
On-site interpreting across Maryland, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia; VRI, OPI, CART, and document translation nationwide. One award can cover both local on-site work and remote coverage anywhere your program operates.
How do we get your W-9, insurance, and certification documents?
Ask and they're on the way — W-9, certificates of insurance, certification copies, and our capability statement typically go out the same business day, and we complete vendor-registration portals promptly.
Add a Certified Language Vendor to Your File
Request the capability statement and certificate copies — same-business-day turnaround, ready for your next bid or task order.