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Home Office - Auto-translation and transcription Request for Information

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UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-067065

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05aa4d

Published 8 October 2025, 11:03am

Last edited 21 October 2025, 12:19pm

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Dear Suppliers

We have made one change to the below notice in Procurement Description (Scope section).

The change has been made to the paragraph 'The Home Office have identified three distinct but interrelated types of requirements. These include interpretation, translation and transcription.'

It is now changed to 'The Home Office have identified three distinct but interrelated types of requirements. These include interpreting, translation and transcription.'

Scope

Description

The Home Office Migration & Borders System (which includes Asylum & Human Rights Operations, Border Force, Immigration Enforcement, Visas, Status & Immigration (VSI) and Passports, Citizenship & Civil Registration (PCCR)) is conducting market research to gather information regarding automated translation and transcription technologies to further understand both current and potential future market capabilities.

This Request for Information (RFI) is issued solely for information purposes and does not constitute a Request for proposal, Request for Quotation, or invitation to bid.

The Home Office have identified three distinct but interrelated types of requirements. These include interpreting, translation and transcription.

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 8 October 2025 to 31 October 2025
  • 24 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 72212740 - Foreign language translation software development services

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Engagement

Engagement deadline

31 October 2025

Engagement process description

This is a request for information regarding automated translation and transcription technologies to further understand both current and potential future market capabilities.

Suppliers interested in taking part in this RFI exercise should contact Laura Bogdanova (Laura.Bogdanova1@homeoffice.gov.uk) for a copy of the Auto-translation and transcription Request for Information document which includes background, supporting information and the RFI questions. A copy of a Home Office signed NDA will also be sent to participating suppliers for them to countersign and to return with their responses to the RFI questions. Supplier responses and NDA should also be returned to Laura Bogdanova (Laura.Bogdanova1@homeoffice.gov.uk) by 17:00 on Friday 31 October 2025.

Thank you in advance for your interest and we appreciate you taking the time to respond to our request for information.

Kind regards

HO Commercial Team

Participation

Particular suitability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)

Contracting authority

Home Office

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PWGC-6513-PQLZ

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

United Kingdom

Contact name: Laura Bogdanova

Email: Laura.Bogdanova1@homeoffice.gov.uk

Region: UKI32 - Westminster

Organisation type: Public authority - central government