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OFCOM

Welsh Language Translation

Business ServicesCPV 79530000
Value£209k
Awarded29 Oct 2024
Published27 Sept 2024
RegionWales
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£209ktotal 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

Ofcom requires the establishment of a "call-off" Contract for the delivery of an accurate, reliable translation service from English to Welsh and less frequently, from Welsh to English.

As a minimum, the service must deliver the following: - Accurate, timely and clear translation of a wide range of materials from English to Welsh and vice versa - Simultaneous translation as and when required. - Undertake several projects at the same time during busy periods and the ability to work to extremely tight deadlines. - Proof reading of large, complex, and high-profile documents, such as the Annual Report - Ability to turn around within constrained timescales, e.g., one hour if the translation is urgent.

It would be preferable were the service also able to: - maintain and develop a dictionary of complex Ofcom terms which can be shared, in a suitable format with Ofcom Wales staff to ensure consistency across translations.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

As a minimum, the service must deliver

As a minimum, the service must deliver the following:.

02

It would be preferable were the service

It would be preferable were the service also able to:.

03

Maintain and develop a dictionary of complex

maintain and develop a dictionary of complex Ofcom terms which can be shared, in a suitable format with Ofcom Wales staff to ensure consistency across translations.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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