The EU has announced a new into-English translation tender worth EUR 3.5m over 2 years. The bid winner will provide translation services to the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). Continue reading
Demand Drivers
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The Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, Texas is on a recruitment drive, seeking to double the size of their existing in-house team of Spanish interpreters in a million dollar plus cost saving initiative. Continue reading
As language service providers expand across more of the localization supply chain, language technologies can be barriers for LSPs to these growth segments. Customer segmentation and industry focus are now shaping the way that LSPs choose to invest in language technologies. Continue reading
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With less than a year to go until the United Kingdom bows out of the EU, speculation has been rife about the future of the English language within the EU. Now, the confirmation of the EU budget for 2021 to 2027 has put pay to the idea that English could disappear from the corridors of the European Union institutions. Continue reading
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has awarded five sole source contracts worth a grand total of USD 260.58m. The companies are mandated to provide Linguistic Services to the DEA’s divisions on a regional basis. Continue reading
A new tender for onsite and remote interpreting, released by the Swedish Migration Board, is the latest in a string of tenders from the Nordics over the past couple of months. Continue reading
In another potential money-spinner for LSPs operating in the Nordics, the municipality of Svendborg in Denmark released a new tender for interpretation services worth USD 10.5m. Continue reading
WIPO issues potential 11m words translation contract. Freelancers and LSPs subcontracting to other LSPs excluded. Bidders must employ native translators in Spanish, French, and English. Continue reading
A dozen Danish government agencies related to the judicial sector issue a massive collective tender for language services. The entire contract will be awarded to a single vendor in order to “achieve cost savings and economies of scale”. Continue reading
Netflix closes Hermes, its online subtitling and translation test and indexing system, and says it has ‘reached its capacity for each one of the language tests’. Continue reading
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the total number of jobs for Interpreters and Translators to grow by 18% from 68,200 in 2016 to 80,300 by 2026, outstripping the national average. Median annual pay at USD 46,120 in 2016. Continue reading
As Canada’s Translation Bureau continues discussions with stakeholder groups over various issues, Public Services and Procurement Canada has released a RFI hoping to get feedback from the language industry regarding its procurement processes. Continue reading
Under the Revised 508 Standards, US federal government agencies are now required to comply with new rules on captioning, audio descriptions and other alternate texts for digital content made available on smartphones, cameras and other multifunction devices. Continue reading
The US government has awarded 4,005 contracts on translation and interpretation worthed a total of just over USD 100m for the first four months of FY 2018. Law enforcement and military related spending continues to be the biggest spenders. Continue reading
A new EU Directive called MIFID II, introduced on 3 January 2018, means investment firms will have to make their research costs explicit, and threatens to reduce the amount of research – and therefore translation – being commissioned by investment banks’ trading desks . Continue reading
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