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Northamptonshire Children's Trust

Northamptonshire Children's Trust Language Support Services

Business ServicesCPV 79540000
Value£1.2m
Deadline2 Aug 2021
Published28 Jul 2021
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 28 Jul 2021ClosedCloses 2 Aug 2021
Who to contact
North Northamptonshire Procurement Team
procurement@northnorthants.gov.uk

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How to submit
Open the submissions portal

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Contract value in context
£1.2mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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The brief

Northamptonshire Children's Trust wishes to invite Tender Responses for the supply of Language Support Services.

The objectives of this Framework Agreement is to have a range of Providers that are able to provide high quality Language Support Services to the Trust's clients - both the children and young people the Trust is supporting and their wider family network who may also require the service.

The service specification describes a requirement to establish a framework agreement with several Service Providers to supply Language Support Services to clients who speak, communicate or read languages other than English, or who need to communicate in English in non-standard ways e.g. via audio media, either individually or in groups.

The Children's Trust is setting up a Framework Agreement for 4 years for the provision of Language Support Services.

The Services sought under this framework agreement will be split into the following four lots: Lot 1 - Telephone and Video Remote Interpretation Services Lot 2 - Face to Face Interpretation Services Lot 3 - Translation Services (including hard copy and electronic translation services) Lot 4 - Sensory Impairment Interpretation and Translation The Contract has an estimated annual budget of £300,000 (exclusive of VAT) for the delivery of the requirement as set out in the Specification.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The objectives of this Framework Agreement is

The objectives of this Framework Agreement is to have a range of Providers that are able to provide high quality Language Support Services to the Trust's clients.

02

The Children's Trust is setting up

The Children's Trust is setting up a Framework Agreement for 4 years for the provision of Language Support 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.

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
The objectives of this Framework Agreement is to have a range of Providers that are able to provide high quality Language Support Services to the Trust's clients - both the children and young people the Trust is supporting and their wider family network who may also require the service.

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
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02c296
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
015138-2021
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