- Scope of the procurement
- Lot 1. Example: Face to face and remote interpreting for spoken languages
- Lot 2. Example: Face to face and remote interpreting for BSL, visual and tactile communication
- Lot 3. Example: Telephone Interpreting
- Lot 4. Example: Techology Services
- Lot 5. Example: Quality Assurance
Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Ministry of Justice
102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
Elise.Ballantyne@justice.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
one.2) Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
one.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority
one.5) Main activity
General public services
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Language Services
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 79540000 - Interpretation services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) intends to run a procurement exercise for the delivery of Language Services. The services are available to the Ministry of Justice, its executive agencies and its arm's length bodies. The scope of services includes face to face, telephone and video interpreting services for spoken languages, BSL, visual and tactile communication and quality assurance of all language services. Translation and transcription services are out of scope.
It is very likely the contract will be divided into lots but this is to be developed as part of our market engagement. We have included examples of lots below.
The MoJ is developing its commercial strategy for the provision of language services and is interested in understanding the market’s capacity and capability to bid for, and provide, these services.
The purpose of this notice is to enable suppliers to express interest, and register with us to receive further information on upcoming market engagement events in the new year.
Interested parties are required to complete the following actions:
1) Register an account through the MoJ Sourcing Portal at https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk
2) Navigate to the left side menu and click on ‘PQQs Open to All Suppliers’ > find and click on ‘PQQ_323 – Language Services (Market Engagement Only)’ - for the avoidance of doubt this is not an actual PQQ just a space on our sourcing system to coordinate market engagement activities. There are no mandatory actions to take.
3) You can express an interest by clicking ‘Express interest’.
We will be using the above forum to communicate future events and anticipate our first market engagement event to be held early in the new year. Sufficient notice for this event will be provided.
We'd also like to acknowledge that our upcoming procurement is going ahead later than originally published in our PIN last year. We will be sharing new timelines and be available to answer your questions in our upcoming market engagement events.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: Yes
The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots:
Face to face and remote interpreting for spoken languages, face to face and remote interpreting for BSL and visual and tactile communication, telephone interpreting, technology services, quality assurance.
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Example: Face to face and remote interpreting for spoken languages
Lot No
1
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 79540000 - Interpretation services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
This lot is an example of potential lots that are being explored and is a placeholder before lots are fully developed in market engagement.
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Example: Face to face and remote interpreting for BSL, visual and tactile communication
Lot No
2
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 79540000 - Interpretation services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
This lot is an example of potential lots that are being explored and is a placeholder before lots are fully developed in market engagement.
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Example: Telephone Interpreting
Lot No
3
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 79540000 - Interpretation services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
This lot is an example of potential lots that are being explored and is a placeholder before lots are fully developed in market engagement.
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Example: Techology Services
Lot No
4
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 48000000 - Software package and information systems
- 72260000 - Software-related services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
This lot is an example of potential lots that are being explored and is a placeholder before lots are fully developed in market engagement.
two.2.14) Additional information
We are exploring the possibility of a technology services lot, initial thinking is that this would include a booking platform and management information to be further considered in market engagement
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Example: Quality Assurance
Lot No
5
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 72225000 - System quality assurance assessment and review services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
This lot is an example of potential lots that are being explored and is a placeholder before lots are fully developed in market engagement.
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
1 November 2023
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes