ID 5751799 - TEO - Stenography Services for NI Public Inquiries

Concepts

• belfast
• law courts
• administrative services
• typing services
• translation services
• interpretation services
• inquiry locations
• multiple concurrent inquiries
• bespoke inquiry legislation
• inquiry rules

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

To assist the Chairs in implementing the Inquiries as required by their separate Terms of Reference, the Inquiries Act 2005 and Inquiry Rules 2006, bespoke Inquiry legislation, and the Protocols, and with a particular emphasis on fairness, cost-effectiveness and timeliness, the Northern Ireland Civil Service and the Northern Ireland Office wish to procure stenography and transcription services to support multiple concurrent inquiries. The Contractor must provide the following, Provision of accurate, real-time transcripts of oral hearings (including translated versions, if required); Provision of daily finalised transcripts for Inquiry records within two hours of the end of the oral hearing; and • Initially inquiry locations are expected to be (this will be determined by each inquiry): Bradford Court, 1 Bradford Court, Galwally, Belfast and Corn Exchange, 31 Gordon Street, Belfast. The Contractor will also be required to provide ad-hoc stenography and transcription services at external locations across the UK or in the Republic of Ireland.

Total Quantity or Scope

• Initially inquiry locations are expected to be (this will be determined by each inquiry): Bradford Court, 1 Bradford Court, Galwally, Belfast and Corn Exchange, 31 Gordon Street, Belfast.

Renewal Options

Option to extend for up to two further periods of twelve months each

CPV Codes

• 75231100 - Law-courts-related administrative services
• 79551000 - Typing services
• 79550000 - Typing, word-processing and desktop publishing services
• 79530000 - Translation services
• 79540000 - Interpretation services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Options are available.
• Renewals are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Contract Value. The figure indicated in Section II 1.5 represents the maximum contract value. However, as this is a call off contract that is demand driven there is no guarantee to the level of work. The estimated contract value is a range between £1m and £3m which will be determined by the usage off the contract depending on the number of enquiries at both locations.. . . Suppliers not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a.. Supplier fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time,.. they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further.. action. If this occurs and the performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as. an. act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and their place on the. contract. may be terminated. The issue of a Notice of unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all. procurement. competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland. Procurement. Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the Notice.