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ClosedStage · tender

Department for Communities

DfC Collaborative Framework for the Provision of Interpreting and Translation Services

Business ServicesCPV 79530000
Value£6.0m
Deadline29 Jun 2026
Published2 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 2 Jun 2026ClosedCloses 29 Jun 2026
Who to contact
translationhub@communities-ni.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

Tenders must be submitted electronically via the relevant Call for Tender (CfT) opportunity on eTendersNI, website details immediately below. Paper submissions will not be accepted or considered and will be rejected by the Contracting Authority / Buyer. The tender documents are available with unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: URL https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£6.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£6.5m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Construction and Procurement Delivery (CPD), on behalf of the Participating Bodies (Northern Ireland Civil Service Departments, Agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies, and other Participating Bodies – ‘the Buyer’) is seeking to establish a collaborative framework agreement for the provision of interpreting and translation services.

Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedules for full detail on the requirements of this framework agreement.

Neither CPD nor the Participating Bodies can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this framework agreement.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedules

Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedules for full detail on the requirements of this framework agreement.

02

Neither CPD nor the Participating Bodies can

Neither CPD nor the Participating Bodies can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this framework agreement.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ab42
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
051800-2026
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