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title: "Language Services - Translation and Transcription"
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# Language Services - Translation and Transcription

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/language-services-translation-and-transcription-ocds-h6vhtk-02afd6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Ministry of Justice: "Language Services - Translation and Transcription". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Ministry of Justice](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/ministry-of-justice-gov-d18)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Translation services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £180,160,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02afd6`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/language-services-translation-and-transcription-ocds-h6vhtk-02afd6#tl-md)

## Description
This is a corrigendum notice to the Contract Award Notice 2021/S 000-010341, Publication date: 11 May 2021.
Short Description:
This is a contract award notice following the procurment 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 call for competition Contract Notice number is 2020/S 207-506366 (http://ted.europa.eu/udl?
uri=TED:NOTICE:506366-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** 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 ...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Translation and Transcription (active)
  - Award id: `010341-2021-1`
  - Supplier(s): **thebigword Group Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-172902`
  - Value: £180,160,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Translation and Transcription (active)
  - Signed Value: £180,160,000
  - Signed Date: 26/04/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F011133-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-05-19T21:55:03.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T06:32:25.092Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02afd6