# Interpretation Services

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/19m05526p0103

- Solicitation number: 19M05526P0103
- Notice type: Combined synopsis and solicitation
- Status: Awarded to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees
- Department: Department of State
- Contracting office: U.S. Embassy Rabat (19M055)
- NAICS: 54193 Translation and Interpretation Services
- Product or service code: R608 Translation and Interpreting Services(Including Sign Language)
- Place of performance: MAR
- First posted: January 6, 2026
- Last posted: January 13, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/9cfc342304d14af7bdb29b842356575b/view

## Description

Dear Prospective Offerors, The Embassy of the United States of America in Rabat invites qualified and specialized translation and interpretation companies to submit quotations for the provision of simultaneous interpretation services. Six (6) interpreters are required to provide simultaneous interpreting services for thirty-two (32) correctional officers from Africa and the Middle East countries for ten (10) days from January 26 through February 6, 2026. The venue is the DGAPR National Training Institute in Tiflet. Languages needed for this multilingual setting are English, Arabic, French, and Portuguese.

**1.Classroom Instruction:** Hours of Engagement:Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Location:DGAPR National Training Institute in Tiflet Equipment required:3 soundproof booths; 45 headsets; 16 conference/static microphones; 3 portable microphones; and 2 head microphones 2.Site Visits:

**Hours of Engagement and Locations:**

**Monday, January 26:** Tour of the training institute facility in Tiflet (5:00 PM to 6:30 PM)

**Tuesday, January 27:** Visit to the Tiflet 2 Local Prison (2:00 PM to 6:00 PM)

**Wednesday, January 28:** Visit to the Tamesna Local Prison (2:00 PM to 6:00 PM)

**Friday, January 30:** Visit to the Oudaya Local Prison in Marrakesh (8:30 AM to 12:30 PM)

**Friday, January 30:** Monuments visit in Marrakesh (2:30 PM to 5:30 PM)

**Wednesday, February 4:** Visit to the Juvenile Reform and Rehabilitation Center and Ain Sebaa Local Prison in Casablanca (8:30 AM to 1:30 PM)

**Wednesday, February 4:** Visit to the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca (2:30 PM to 5:30 PM) Equipment required: mobile interpretation equipment that provides wireless, portable solutions for real-time language translation, typically involving interpreters using transmitters and microphones, while participants wear wireless receivers or headsets to hear the translated audio, enabling seamless communication for tours, field visits, and events without fixed booths. 45 mobile headsets are needed for the tours and site visits.

**3.Graduation Ceremony:**

**Hours of Engagement and Location:**

**Friday, February 6:** Auditorium at the National Training Institute in Tiflet (2:30 PM to 5:30 PM) Equipment required: mobile interpretation equipment that provides wireless, portable solutions for real-time language translation, typically involving interpreters using transmitters and microphones, while participants wear wireless receivers or headsets to hear the translated audio, enabling seamless communication for tours, field visits, and events without fixed booths. 45 mobile headsets are needed for the graduation ceremony.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees (UEI LN9PU5M2YZN5)
- Contract: 19M05526P0103, purchase order
- Obligated: $27,904.95
- Competition: Competed Under SAP, 14 offers received
- Link: solicitation number 19M05526P0103 was reused as the contract number; same awarding office 19M055 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_19M05526P0103_1900_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- January 6, 2026: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due January 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM EST. Notice ca9046bb476a48b0a2d85dd6d4657bf7. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/ca9046bb476a48b0a2d85dd6d4657bf7/view
- January 13, 2026: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due January 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM EST. Notice 9cfc342304d14af7bdb29b842356575b. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/9cfc342304d14af7bdb29b842356575b/view

## Points of contact

- Fouad Mouaatakid, rabatgsoprocurement@state.gov
- Myron Hirniak, HirniakM@state.gov

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