Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry (SCI) Transcription Services

Concepts

• scottish covid-19 inquiry
• glasgow
• law courts
• youtube
• transcription services
• appointed service provider
• administrative services
• interpretation services
• legal transcription services
• sci

Location

Scotland:

Description

The Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry (“SCI” or the “Inquiry”) requires real-time legal transcription services (the “Services”). The Inquiry will hold public hearings at its hearing venue which ordinarily will be broadcast via its website and YouTube channel. At such public hearings, the Inquiry requires real-time, legal transcription services to be performed on its behalf. The appointed Service Provider must have the necessary experience, ability, capacity, and resilience to perform the services described in this specification.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Service Provider will provide real-time verbatim legal transcription of the proceedings. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Renewal Options

The Authority reserves the right to extend the period of contract for an additional period of up to 24 months ( 2 x 12 months), to no later than 31 October 2028.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 75231100 - Law-courts-related administrative services
• 79540000 - Interpretation services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Options are available.
• Renewals are available.
• Financial restrictions apply.
• Staff qualifications are relevant.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Question Scoring Methodology for Award Criteria outlined in invitation to tender 0 Unacceptable. Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate an ability to meet the requirement. 1 Poor. Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response addresses some elements of the requirement but contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate how the requirement will be fulfilled. 2 Acceptable. Response is relevant and acceptable. The response addresses a broad understanding of the requirement but may lack details on how the requirement will be fulfilled in certain areas. 3 Good. Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding and provides details on how the requirements will be fulfilled. 4 Excellent. Response is completely relevant and excellent overall. Tenderers are required to respond to Q4C.1.2 - Examples of similar service contracts, Q4C.4 relating to Supply Chain Management and Q4C.7 - Environmental Management and will also be asked to confirm that they will pay staff that are involved in the delivery of services under the contract, at least the real Living Wage. Tenderers who do not pass these questions will not be subject to Commercial Analysis. As a result the tender will not be considered further. Bidders must complete the SPD (Scotland) to demonstrate adherence to the Exclusion and Selection Criteria for this procurement. If there are named subcontractors/technicians upon which the bidder will rely to meet the selection criteria, these named parties must complete and reattach the SPD Supplier Response Form attached to SPD. The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 23906. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 (SC Ref:729239)