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NHS Business Services Authority

23_04_03 Language Services

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79500000 85000000 85100000
Value£456k
Awarded1 Dec 2023
Published21 Mar 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£456ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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.

The brief

This contract is for the provision of a range of language services to all NHSBSA staff and services.

The overarching requirement and objective is to provide translation services for our customers and other users.

The primary requirement is for telephone translations however there is also a need for written and face to face translation on an ad-hoc basis.

Key outputs and deliverables are: - To provide a professional on demand telephone translation service with the ability to hold a three-way conversation with NHSBSA contact centre agents and our customers during our contact centre opening hours. - To provide written translation for correspondence received from customers by post and by email to meet the agreed response times to customers. - To translate written correspondence from the NHSBSA in the form of letters, forms or online information where necessary into other languages or formats such as braille. - To provide face to face translation such as British Sign Language for job applicants during the recruitment process and for members of the public during user research.

This contract period will be from 23/03/2024 until 22/03/2028.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The overarching requirement and objective is

The overarching requirement and objective is to provide translation services for our customers and other users.

02

To provide a professional on demand telephone

To provide a professional on demand telephone translation service with the ability to hold a three-way conversation with NHSBSA contact centre agents and our customers during our contact centre opening hours.

03

To provide written translation for correspondence received

To provide written translation for correspondence received from customers by post and by email to meet the agreed response times to customers.

04

To provide face to face translation such

To provide face to face translation such as British Sign Language for job applicants during the recruitment process and for members of the public during user research.

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