Attachment (7) Interpreter Qualifications Matrix.pdf
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- Court Interpretation for EOIR and Other Language Services Federal contract opportunity
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- 15JPSS20F000000017
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This document contains an interpreter qualifications matrix and details of a related federal contract solicitation. The solicitation is for on-site interpretation, scheduled telephonic interpreter, written translation, Computer Aided Real-Time Transcription (CART), and transcription/translation of recordings services to support immigration court proceedings for the Executive Office for Immigration Review throughout the United States and its territories. The qualifications matrix requires contractors to provide details on interpreter experience, certifications, evaluations, and other qualifications for all interpreters to be utilized under the contract within 60 days of award. Relevant details include languages covered, state locations, closest immigration court sites, and interpreter names. Interpreter experience must be classified into consecutive interpretation, simultaneous interpretation, court interpreting, and immigration court interpreting categories. Certification and education details such as dates and institutions must be provided. Interpreter evaluation report results and other information like most recent assignment dates are also required. The solicitation is open to all Department of Justice components and was issued under number 15JPSS20F000000017.
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INTERPRETER QUALIFICATIONS MATRIX
The Interpreter Qualifications Matrix (Matrix) is a table that describes by language, state, closest EOIR court site, and interpreter name the basic qualifications of all the interpreters who are available to be utilized by the Contractor to perform interpreting services under this contract. The Matrix must be completed within 60 days after award.
The qualifications to be listed in the Matrix are comprised of four primary areas: 1) interpreting experience; 2) certification and education; 3) interpreter evaluation report results; and 4) other.
Interpreting Experience
This section must be divided into four areas of expertise: 1) consecutive interpretation; 2) simultaneous interpretation; 3) court interpreting; and, 4) Immigration Court interpreting.
For each of these areas the Matrix must reflect the following periods of working experience: 1) none; 2) less than one year; 3) one to five years; and, 4) more than five years.
Certification and Education
This section must indicate whether the interpreter has Federal Court Interpreter Certification, State Court Interpreter Certification, or NAJIT/JITCE Certification.
Include the date of certification and the name of the state(s) where the interpreter is certified. For education qualifications, this section must indicate whether the interpreter has a bachelor’s, master’s or Ph.D. degree relevant to court interpreting, such as in Interpretation, Translation, Linguistics, English, a foreign language, etc. Include the date, type of degree, major field of study, and the name of the university from which the degree was earned.
Interpreter Evaluation Report Results
This section must include the results of the written evaluation report of the interpreter evaluation conducted as referenced in Section C.3.7. It should include information on the interpreter’s language proficiency in both English and the foreign language, and interpretation skills in consecutive, simultaneous, and sight interpretation. It must also include the results of the first time interpreter (initial EOIR assignment) evaluation.
Other
This section should include the date of the interpreter’s last completed EOIR assignment, as well as whether a waiver request related to the one year of judiciary experience requirement has been submitted to and approved by EOIR.
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