Strong performance in translation services offsets pullback elsewhere as Donnelley Financial reports results for Q3 2016; Teleperformance says LanguageLine to significantly boost bottom line; Keywords continues buying spree.
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.
Data from over 80 proposals submitted to the US Government’s General Services Administration (GSA) reveals a wide disparity in translation pricing. Offers range from USD 0.09 to USD 0.57 per word. Virginia tops the vendor HQ list with New York and California the runners-up.
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.
LanguageLine runs afoul of the US government’s complex web of federal labor laws and is ordered to pay damages to over 2,400 interpreters
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