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UK’s HealthTrust Europe (HTE) and NHS SBS name 30+ winners of language services framework contracts for onsite and remote translation, interpretation, and transcription.
Purchasing consortium ESPO names 20 winners of four-year contract. Framework largely for over-the-phone interpreting, virtual remote interpreting, and in-person interpreting.
UK Crown Commercial Service plans to run GBP 110m translation and interpreting tender; asks for input from suppliers via survey and webinar.
UK’s ESPO announces a fresh public sector contract worth up to USD 100m for translation and interpreting services as previous framework contract nears expiry.
Language Empire ordered to pay four times the normal cost to thebigword for abusing the court’s processes. Language Empire appeals decision.
Why Language Empire thought it could get away with launching a business under the name “Big Word Translation” remains unclear. The company was now ordered by a judge to cease operating under the trademarked name and may have to pay punitive damages to the real thebigword.
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.
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.
UK’s Crown Commercial Service rolls three existing government contracts into one and awards a four-year contract worth up to GBP 250m to 12 language service providers and one consortium.
Perhaps heeding lessons learned about a single-vendor strategy on a national level, the Coventry City Council’s Procurement Team shifts gears and awards a single GBP 1.08m language services contract to 12 suppliers.
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