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Welsh Government

WELSH TRANSLATION & SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATON SERVICES

Business ServicesCPV 79530000
Value£10,000,000
Deadline
Published28 Jul 2022
RegionNationwide

£10,000,000 — stated in the notice.

Who to contact
CPSProcurementAdvice@gov.wales
+44 3000623300

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£10.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£10.8m

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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Welsh Government publishes Business Services work continuously — 25 notices, roughly one every 33 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

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The brief

A tender process is being prepared to establish a new Framework Agreement for the translation of documents from English into Welsh; Welsh into English and for simultaneous interpretation from English into Welsh and also simultaneous interpretation from Welsh into English.

The new framework will be in place to meet the Welsh Government translation requirements and will also be available for Welsh Government subsidiary organisations.

In order to be able to successfully secure a place on the framework arrangement, bidders must have appropriate membership of a professional translation or interpretation body.

This PIN notice is intended to allow potential bidders time to obtain appropriate membership of a professional translation or interpretation body prior to the contract notice and tender opportunity being issued.

The professional translation/interpretation body must be one where examination/assessment is required to become a full member.

The professional accreditation must be relevant to the Lot.

Examples of professional translation/interpretation bodies, although not exhaustive, are Cymdeithas Cyfieithwyr Cymru and the Institute of Translation and Interpreting.

As this new framework arrangement for Welsh Government is intended to replace previous NPS Welsh Translation and Simultaneous Interpretation Framework Agreement that has been operational since 01 November 2018, ref: NPS-PS-0078-17 that is currently being utilised by the Welsh Government, this notice provides information on the Welsh Government requirements which differ to previous arrangements and to allow potential bidders time to prepare for the tender.

Please refer to the Lot details for further information on the future framework agreement requirements whereby call off contracts from the Framework will be open to the Welsh Government and the wholly owned subsidiary companies and sponsored bodies of the Welsh Government.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

In order to be able to successfully

In order to be able to successfully secure a place on the framework arrangement, bidders must have appropriate membership of a professional translation or interpretation body.

02

The professional translation/interpretation body must be one

The professional translation/interpretation body must be one where examination/assessment is required to become a full member.

03

The professional accreditation must be relevant

The professional accreditation must be relevant to the Lot.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

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
A tender process is being prepared to establish a new Framework Agreement for the translation of documents from English into Welsh;

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-03571a
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
020689-2022
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