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Staffordshire County Council

IA2673 Interpretation & Translation Services

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79500000
Value£80k
Awarded6 Sept 2022
Published9 Nov 2022
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£80ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Further competition on NHS SBS Interpretation and Translation Services framework reference: SBS/21/NL/ZWV/10127 Lot 6 One-Stop-Shop.

Contract term - 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2024, with the option to extend by 2 x 12 months.

Value: Up to £61,000 over the total 4 years.

Contract for delivery of a One Stop shop offering customers access to all services listed below to enable effective and efficient management of bookings, service availability, time-sheeting, invoicing and management information.

The provision of the following Translation and Interpretation services are required: • written translation • telephone interpretation • video interpretation • face to face interpretation British Sign Language interpreting for deaf and deafblind people is currently provided in-house by the County Council's ASSIST service (Autism and Sensory Support in Staffordshire).

The service also provides translation, transcription and Easy Read for people who have sight loss and for those with communication difficulties.

If during the period of the T&I contract this service cannot be provided in-house, the supplier will be required to deliver this service.

A sole provider will be required for this contract to provide all services.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

British Sign Language interpreting for deaf

British Sign Language interpreting for deaf and deafblind people is currently provided in-house by the County Council's ASSIST service (Autism and Sensory Support in Staffordshire).

02

If during the period of the T&I

If during the period of the T&I contract this service cannot be provided in-house, the supplier will be required to deliver this service.

03

A sole provider will be required

A sole provider will be required for this contract to provide all services.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

NHS Shared Business ServicesFrameworks & routes to market
Further competition on NHS SBS Interpretation and Translation Services framework reference: SBS/21/NL/ZWV/10127 Lot 6 One-Stop-Shop.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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