PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Language Services - Translation and Transcription

Ministry of Justice · published 1 Dec 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID486b4d5e-c584-4de6-8f40-6c08da7ee117-874102
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-0a23072d-53d6-4c48-bebc-f9e823243c94
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-183111
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£18,160,000
award field
Tender value
£18,160,000
tender field
Procurement method
Open procedure (above threshold)
Category
services
CPV
79530000
Translation services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This is a contract award notice following the procurement for the provision of translation and transcription services for the Ministry of Justice, its executive agencies, its arm's length bodies and any other government body. The services include the translation of written material and transcription of oral material from a source language into a target language within a specified timescale and format as requested by MoJ entities and other bodies across England, Wales and Scotland. The scope of services includes: - translation of written material from one language to another as text, - transcription of audio files, tapes and other electronic media into written and/or electronic text documents in the same or different languages, - transcription of written documents and/or electronic media into alternative formations such as (but not limited to) braille, easy read, large print, text to audio and typesetting. The maximum term available is to 28/10/2028, but the current contract is due to expire 28/10/2027.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release1 Dec 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published23 Nov 2020
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published26 Apr 2021
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published28 Oct 2028
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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thebigword Group Ltd

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 1 Dec 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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