A complaint against US interpretation provider Global Linguist Solutions alleges poor treatment of workers in Kuwait, while a former recruiter of interpreters is indicted by army prosecutors for foul play in money-making scheme.
Fortune 500 company Leidos Inc. has received a contract award worth USD 170.8m max from US Defense agency DIA for translation services. Company is now recruiting for new Linguists and Cultural Analysts.
Valiant Integrated Services, US Department of Defense’s incumbent LSP in Iraq and Syria, now seeks linguists in Turkish, Somali, Arabic, etc. for new DoD contract worth an estimated USD 55m.
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.
The US government’s translation and interpretation spend for 2017 has reached over half a billion US Dollars so far, already outstripping 2016 spending. Over 77% of spending went to just 20 companies.
Florida-based Spanish Solutions’ proposal for a USD 53,560 interpreting contract, first dismissed on a technicality, was later found to have been submitted several minutes past deadline.
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.
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