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Court Reporting and Transcription

Buyer: Ministry of Justice →

BuyerMinistry of Justice
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
Value£25,000,000
Published26 May 2026

What is being bought

Provision of Offsite Transcription Services (OTS) to support the production of official court and tribunal transcripts across HMCTS jurisdictions. The services will comprise the secure receipt, processing, and transcription of digital audio recordings of court and tribunal proceedings, undertaken remotely by the supplier.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Administration services 75100000Judicial services 75231000Law-courts-related administrative services 75231100

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Contract periodFrom 1 Sept 2028 to 31 Aug 2031
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Administration services, Law-courts-related administrative services, Judicial servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 75. The category anchor is Administration services (75100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 758863 median · 60.2 average (226 of 886 with a bid count)3.7 average (274 of 886 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer19Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK2144 median · 140.6 average (58 of 214 with a bid count)7.3 average (81 of 214 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)5029 median · 29 average (1 of 50 with a bid count)10 average (1 of 50 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05244f
Latest release ID048513-2026
Latest release timestampTue May 26 2026 09:49:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£25,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
26 May 2026planningUpdate048513-2026
9 Jul 2025planning038624-2025
27 May 2025planningUpdate027808-2025
23 May 2025planning026894-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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