Prior information notice
This notice is for prior information only
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Crown Commercial Service
The Capital Building, Old Hall Street
Liverpool
L3 9PP
UK
Telephone: +44 3454102222
E-mail: supplier@crowncommercial.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.gov.uk/ccs
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity
Other: Public Procurement
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Language Services
Reference number: RM6302
II.1.2) Main CPV code
79540000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Crown Commercial Service, as the Authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of Language Services for use by Central Government and UK public sector bodies.
Further information is included in the Additional Information section VI.3.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
250 000 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
Yes
II.2) Description
Lot No: 1
II.2.1) Title
National Managed Service Provision
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
32232000
32353000
48521000
48740000
64211000
72212740
75230000
79510000
79530000
79540000
79551000
79552000
79821100
79822300
79822500
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The provision of a Managed Service throughout the United Kingdom.
The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to select one or more services within the remit of the Lot to be delivered by a single Supplier on a national scale.
The Services will include:
● Translation Services
● Transcription Service
● Telephone Interpretation Services
● Video Interpretation Services (Spoken and Visual)
● Face to Face Interpretation (Spoken and Visual)
Lot No: 2
II.2.1) Title
Translation & Ancillary Services
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
48740000
72212740
79530000
79552000
79821100
79822300
79822500
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The provision of Written Translation and Ancillary Services throughout the United Kingdom.
The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to select one or more services within the remit of this Lot to be delivered by a single supplier on a national scale.
The Services required will include the Translation of variety of different document types, including but not limited to:
- Advisory / guidance and instruction documents;
- Correspondence and information leaflets;
- Technical, scientific, legal, medical, financial or any other specialist
category;
This lot will require the following, but not limited to, types of translation services:
- Verbatim translations (word for word);
- Artwork, design, illustration and typesetting;
- Proofreading;
- Multimedia and e-learning;
- Campaign collateral;
- Website localisation;
- Software localisation.
The Supplier will be required to deliver the above using human and/or technological solutions.
Lot No: 3
II.2.1) Title
Transcription Services
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
48740000
72212740
79551000
79552000
79821100
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The provision of Transcription Services throughout the United Kingdom.
The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to select one or more services within the remit of this Lot to be delivered by a single supplier on a national scale.
The Services required will include the Transcription of audio and video content of varying content, including but not limited to:
- Verbatim Transcription (word for word);
- Edited Transcription
- Intelligent Transcription
- Hansard Transcriptions
- Proofreading/Post Editing;
The Supplier will be required to deliver the above using human and/or technological solutions.
Lot No: 4
II.2.1) Title
Visual Interpreting Services
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
32232000
32353000
48521000
48740000
72212740
79530000
79540000
79821100
79822300
79822500
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The provision of Visual Interpreting Services throughout the United Kingdom.
The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to select one or more services within the remit of this Lot to be delivered by a single Supplier on a regional basis.
The Services required will include:
● Face to Face Interpretation
● Video Interpreting
● Translation Services for the Deaf/Deafblind
● Transcription Services for the Deaf/Deafblind
These services are designed to support the communication between Deaf and
Deaf/blind people and others requiring support to access English.
Lot No: 5
II.2.1) Title
Regional Managed Services
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
32232000
32353000
48521000
48740000
64211000
72212740
75230000
79510000
79530000
79540000
79551000
79552000
79821100
79822300
79822500
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The provision of a Regional Managed Service throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.
The scope of this Lot will enable Contracting Authorities to select one or more services within the remit of this Lot to be delivered by a single Supplier on a regional basis.
The Services required will include:
● Face to Face Interpretation
● Video Interpreting
● Translation Services for the Deaf/Deafblind
● Transcription Services for the Deaf/Deafblind
The regions are broken down as follows:
5a - North West
5b – North East and Yorkshire
5c - Midlands
5d - East of England
5e - London
5f - South East
5g - South West
5h - Wales
5i - Scotland
5j - Northern Ireland
5k – Overseas
II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
11/07/2024
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
This prior information notice replaces the previous PIN issued on the 02/05/2023
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012557-2023
This Prior Information Notice is updating our scope of requirements from the original PIN issued in May. It also acts as a signal of intention to continue market engagement with those within the language services industry.
Crown Commercial Service intends to hold further market engagement sessions during October 2023 onwards with suppliers interested in potentially bidding for this commercial agreement. If you are interested in attending a market engagement session please submit your details into the following GoogleForm via this link: https://forms.gle/XufYC5BYJe4j3ojVA
We will use this source to invite interested parties to our market engagement sessions and notify them of our intention to release our Invitation to Tender. If you are having any access issues you can email info@crowncommercial.gov.uk. If the latter you must clearly state: the name of your organisation, and contact details (email and telephone number) for the individual(s) who will participate in the market engagement.
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is
[https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk]. Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.
The value in II.1.5 is an indicative value over 4 years.
The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS website page [https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6302] and monitor Find A Tender Service for the publication of the contract notice.
A Future Opportunity on contract finder can be found here:
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0c19cddd-2bb9-4269-bdc8-88b154dad73c
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
10/10/2023