Six new automated translation projects will receive funding from the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) program in the telecommunications sector to improve multilingual support for public sector organizations. Continue reading
Deal Wins
The latest closed deals in the language industry from technology vendors to service providers
European Central Bank announces winners of EUR 2.4m framework for translating 19 source languages into English. Estonian and Maltese still looking for vendors. Continue reading
Judicial Council of California announces winners of pilot to provide video remote interpretation to the state’s courts. Selected vendors Connected Justice and Paras and Associates both use Cisco technology and will undergo a six month assessment starting in July 2017. Continue reading
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EU awards EUR 63.5m interpretation contract to meet language needs of immigrants from southern border; Finland, EUR 37.5m, for those who make it way up north. Continue reading
US Defense Department announces winners of what is, perhaps, the largest ever language services contract. Nine winners of nearly USD 10bn framework need to be ready for “short notice and urgent” assignments. Continue reading
UK’s NHS announces 14 winners of yet another major nationwide language services framework contract. Contract runs two years with Capita TI, LanguageLine, thebigword, and ONCALL Interpreters among the successful bidders. Continue reading
European Commission awards complex contract to seven European language technology and artificial intelligence organizations. Commission hopes consortiums will help remove the language barrier, which is holding back the EU’s much vaunted Digital Single Market. Continue reading
The UK’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) releases details about the giant interpretation and translation contract awarded to thebigword, Clarion, and The Language Shop. Learning from past failure, the MoJ steps up monitoring and sends out mystery shoppers. Continue reading
Lingsoft prevails against three competitors as EUR 5m contract with Finland’s public-broadcasting company Yleisradio Oy (Yle) comes up for renewal. Yle’s Head of Translation says 50% of broadcaster’s program requires translation. Continue reading
Luxembourg-based Amplexor wins contract against 13 competitors; Chief Sales Officer estimates volume at 200,000 pages annually into and from all official EU languages and points to the challenge of managing such a contract successfully. Continue reading
After Teleperformance’s LanguageLine acquisition, Transcosmos’ remote interpretation contract win with convenience store 7-Eleven marks the entry of yet another BPO company into the language services industry. Continue reading
Dutch language service provider Concorde beats out 11 competitors and secures four-year contract with EU agency Eurojust. Incumbent vendor Word Perfect’s COO confirms it submitted a bid. Continue reading
AVB Translations wins sizeable government contract with Health Ministry. Win comes after Dutch government required that language service providers, who want to qualify for government work, pay freelancers a minimum EUR 0.10 per word. Continue reading
Danish language service provider and Swedish software company team up to form a joint-venture and deliver on the four-year framework agreement. Contract revolves around managing linguistic resources that form the foundation of EUIPO’s huge data repository. Continue reading
Very large framework agreements are the United Kingdom’s language service sourcing flavor du jour as contracting agency ESPO puts a GBP 120m figure on the value of a contract awarded to no less than 13 vendors. Continue reading
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