Language Services
A Prior Information Notice
by THE MINISTER FOR THE CABINET OFFICE ACTING THROUGH CROWN COMMERCIAL SERVICE
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Future Contract (Services)
- Duration
- not specified
- Value
- 250M
- Sector
- BUSINESS
- Published
- 10 Jul 2024
- Delivery
- not specified
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
Liverpool
1 buyer
Description
Crown Commercial Service, as the Authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of Language Services for use by Central Government and UK public sector bodies. Further information is included in the Additional Information section VI.3.
Lot Division
1 | National Managed Service Provision The provision of a Managed Service throughout the United Kingdom. The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to select one or more services within the remit of the Lot to be delivered by a single Supplier on a national scale. The Services will include: ● Translation Services ● Transcription Service ● Telephone Interpretation Services ● Video Interpretation Services (Spoken and Visual) ● Face to Face Interpretation (Spoken and Visual) |
2 | Translation & Ancillary Services The provision of Written Translation and Ancillary Services throughout the United Kingdom. The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to select one or more services within the remit of this Lot to be delivered by a single supplier on a national scale. The Services required will include the Translation of variety of different document types, including but not limited to: - Advisory / guidance and instruction documents; - Correspondence and information leaflets; - Technical, scientific, legal, medical, financial or any other specialist category; This lot will require the following, but not limited to, types of translation services: - Verbatim translations (word for word); - Artwork, design, illustration and typesetting; - Proofreading; - Multimedia and e-learning; - Campaign collateral; - Website localisation; - Software localisation. The Supplier will be required to deliver the above using human and/or technological solutions. |
3 | Transcription Services The provision of Transcription Services throughout the United Kingdom. The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to select one or more services within the remit of this Lot to be delivered by a single supplier on a national scale. The Services required will include the Transcription of audio and video content of varying content, including but not limited to: - Verbatim Transcription (word for word); - Edited Transcription - Intelligent Transcription - Hansard Transcriptions - Proofreading/Post Editing; The Supplier will be required to deliver the above using human and/or technological solutions. |
4 | Visual Interpreting Services The provision of Visual Interpreting Services throughout the United Kingdom. The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to select one or more services within the remit of this Lot to be delivered by a single Supplier on a regional basis. The Services required will include: ● Face to Face Interpretation ● Video Interpreting ● Translation Services for the Deaf/Deafblind ● Transcription Services for the Deaf/Deafblind These services are designed to support the communication between Deaf and Deaf/blind people and others requiring support to access English. |
5 | Regional Managed Services The provision of Face to Face Interpreting Services throughout the United Kingdom and Overseas. The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to procure face to face interpreting services to be deployed overseas. |
CPV Codes
- 79540000 - Interpretation services
- 32232000 - Video-conferencing equipment
- 32353000 - Sound recordings
- 48521000 - Music or sound editing software package
- 48740000 - Foreign language translation software package
- 64211000 - Public-telephone services
- 72212740 - Foreign language translation software development services
- 75230000 - Justice services
- 79510000 - Telephone-answering services
- 79530000 - Translation services
- 79551000 - Typing services
- 79552000 - Word-processing services
- 79821100 - Proofreading services
- 79822300 - Typesetting services
- 79822500 - Graphic design services
Indicators
Other Information
This prior information notice replaces the previous PIN issued on the 10/10/2023 https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029869-2023 This Prior Information Notice is updating our scope of requirements from the original PIN issued in May. It also acts as a signal of intention to continue market engagement with those within the language services industry. Crown Commercial Service intends to hold further market engagement sessions during October 2023 onwards with suppliers interested in potentially bidding for this commercial agreement. If you are interested in attending a market engagement session please submit your details into the following GoogleForm via this link: https://forms.gle/XufYC5BYJe4j3ojVA We will use this source to invite interested parties to our market engagement sessions and notify them of our intention to release our Invitation to Tender. If you are having any access issues you can email info@crowncommercial.gov.uk. If the latter you must clearly state: the name of your organisation, and contact details (email and telephone number) for the individual(s) who will participate in the market engagement. Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk. Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. The value in II.1.5 is an indicative value over 4 years. The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS website page https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6302 and monitor Find A Tender Service for the publication of the contract notice. A Future Opportunity on contract finder can be found here: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0c19cddd-2bb9-4269-bdc8-88b154...
Reference
- FTS 021002-2024