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Published 14 Apr 2025, 11:36 BST

Official UK procurement notice

25014 Preliminary Market Engagement for Translation and Interpretation Services

Official notice

Authority: Cambridgeshire County Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: East of England (UKH12)
Planned pipeline value£682,500pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 30 Jun 2030 · starts 1 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Cambridgeshire County Council currently commissions a single provider to deliver translation and interpretation services across 103 teams within the Local Authority.

The Council is required to recommission this service due to the natural expiry of the current contract. The procurement is currently scheduled to launch in Autumn 2025, with the aim of having a new service in place by July 2026 (dates subject to change). This procurement will be undertaken solely by and for Cambridgeshire County Council.

This market engagement seeks to assess market appetite and capability in relation to the proposed contract scope, performance requirements, and the feasibility of meeting demand. The service is expected to cover translation and interpretation services including face-to-face, video remote, telephone, document translation, proof-reading and non-verbal communications such as BSL. The Council are also open to AI translation and interpretation services. The Council are considering a model which would support multiple providers to supply these services.

CPV: Interpretation services · Translation services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Jul 2026 – 30 Jun 2030 (4 yrs)
Delivery: East of EnglandEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
79530000 Translation services79540000 Interpretation services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
14 Apr 2025, 11:36 BST
Last source update
15 Apr 2025, 15:57 BST
Authority reference
DN771494
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-015331
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Interpretation servicesTranslation services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH12)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05024a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

14 Apr 2025 → 1 Jul 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    14 Apr 2025, 11:36 BST
  2. Latest notice published
    15 Apr 2025, 15:57 BST
  3. Market engagement
    9 May 2025, 23:59 BST

    The Market Engagement Documentation was published on the Council's e-tender (Proactis) system on 14th April 2025.

    Interested parties are invited to download and engage with the Market Engagement by;

    (a) Going to : procontract.due-north.com/Opportunities ↗

    (b) Select Cambridgeshire County Council from the organisation list

    (c) Searching for opportunity ref: DN771494

    (d) Expressing an interest

    (e) Accessing and downloading the Market Engagement documents from the website and responding in accordance with the contained instructions.

    Alternatively, you can access the direct link to market engagement opportunity here:

    procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

    The deadline for responses to be received is 17:00 on Friday 9th May 2025.

    The Council may at its discretion ask further questions of Suppliers that provide a response to the questionnaire and reserve the right to hold presentations with those who respond to the initial engagement.

    This process does not form part of the formal tender procedure to follow and no supplier shall be disadvantaged by either taking part or not taking part in this process.

  4. Contract starts120 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 Apr 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    14 Apr 2025, 11:36 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    14 Apr 2025, 11:39 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    15 Apr 2025, 15:57 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (2)

Change to publication date in Engagement process description

Amendment of link to ProContract advertisement.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Cambridgeshire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJVB-3262-VGVJ New Shire Hall, Emery Crescent, Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, East of England, PE28 4YEContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure