MAS - Lingualinx Language Solutions Inc. - GS10F092CA

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

Federal Acquisition Service

Authorized Federal Supply Schedule FSS Price List

MAS – Multiple Award Schedule

Professional Services - Language Services

Note: Contractor has been awarded under the Disaster Recovery Programs.

LinguaLinx Language Solutions, Inc.

433 River Street, Ste 6001

Troy, NY 12180 2296

Phone-(518)388-9000

Fax-(518)338-0066 www.lingualinx.com

Contract Number: GS-10F-092CA

Period Covered by Contract: May 18, 2015 to May 17, 2025

Pricelist current as of Modification #PA-0018 effective February 3rd, 2023

On-line access to contract ordering information, terms and conditions, up-to-date pricing, and the option to create an electronic delivery order is available through GSA Advantage!™, a menu-driven database system. The INTERNET address for GSA Advantage!™ is: http://www.GSAAdvantage.gov.

For more information on ordering go to the following website: https://www.gsa.gov/schedules http://www.gsa.gov/ http://www.gsaadvantage.gov/

CUSTOMER INFORMATION:

1a. Table of Awarded Special Item Number(s) with appropriate cross-reference to page numbers:

SIN Recovery SIN Description

541930 541930RC Translation and Interpretation Services

OLM OLMRC Order-Level Materials

1b. Identification of the lowest priced model number and lowest unit price for that model for each special item number awarded in the contract. This price is the Government price based on a unit of one, exclusive of any quantity/dollar volume, prompt payment, or any other concession affecting price.

Those contracts that have unit prices based on the geographic location of the customer, should show the range of the lowest price, and cite the areas to which the prices apply. Please see table on page 4

1c. If the Contractor is proposing hourly rates a description of all corresponding commercial job titles, experience, functional responsibility and education for those types of employees or subcontractors who will perform services shall be provided. If hourly rates are not applicable, indicate “Not applicable” for this item. Not Applicable

2. Maximum Order: $1,000,000.00

3. Minimum Order: $100.00

4. Geographic Coverage: Domestic only

5. Point of production : Same as company address

6. Discount from list prices or statement of net price: Government net prices. See Attachment.

7. Quantity discounts:

Service Proposed Quantity Discount

Threshold (in UOI)

(UOI) GSA Awarded Rate

(including IFF)

Braille 10000 words Per word $0.1008

Proofing 10000 words Per word $0.0403

Subtitling 10000 words Per word $0.1209

Tier 1* Translation 10000 words Per word $0.1209

Tier 2** Translation 10000 words Per word $0.1612

Tier 3*** Translation 10000 words Per word $0.2015

Transcription 10000 words Per word $0.0403

Voiceover 10001 words Per word $0.3023

Tier 1* Chinese (ZH), Traditional Chinese (ZH), Simplified Spanish (ES)

Tier 2** Albanian (SQ), Arabic (AR), Armenian (HY), Bosnian (BS), Brazilian Portuguese (BR), Bulgarian (BG), Burmese (MY), Croatian (HR), Czech (CS), Dari Flemish (FL), French (FR), French Canada (FR CA), German (DE), Greek (EL), Haitian

Creole (HC), Hindi (HI), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Khmer (KM), Korean (KO), Pashto (PS), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Samoan (SM), Serbian (SR), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Somali (SO), Tagalog (TL), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI)

Tier 3*** Amharic (AM), Bengali (BN), Danish (DA), Dutch (NL), Estonian (ET), Farsi (FA), Finnish (FI), Hebrew (IW), Hmong

(HM), Laotian (LO), Latvian (LV), Norwegian (NO), Punjabi (PA), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Urdu (UR), Yiddish (YI)

8. Prompt payment terms: Net 30 days \ Information for Ordering Offices: Prompt payment terms cannot be negotiated out of the contractual agreement in exchange for other concessions

9. Foreign items: None

10a. Time of Delivery: Specified on the Task Order

10b. Expedited Delivery. The Contractor will insert the sentence “Items available for expedited delivery are noted in this price list.” under this heading. The Contractor may use a symbol of its choosing to highlight items in its price list that have expedited delivery: Contact Contractor

10c. Overnight and 2-day delivery. The Contractor will indicate whether overnight and 2-day delivery are available. Also, the Contractor will indicate that the schedule customer may contact the Contractor for rates for overnight and 2-day delivery: Contact Contractor

10d. Urgent Requirements. The Contractor will note in its price list the “Urgent Requirements” clause of its contract and advise agencies that they can also contact the Contractor’s representative to effect a faster delivery: Contact Contractor

11. F.O.B Points: Destination

12a. Ordering Address: Same as Contractor

12b. Ordering procedures: See Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 8.405-3

13. Payment address: Same as company address

14. Warranty provision.: Contractor’s standard commercial warranty.

15. Export Packing Charges: N/A

16. Terms and conditions of rental, maintenance, and repair: N/A

17. Terms and conditions of installation: N/A

18a. Terms and conditions of repair parts indicating date of parts price lists and any discounts from list prices: N/A

18b. Terms and conditions for any other services: N/A

19. List of service and distribution points: N/A

20. List of participating dealers: N/A

21. Preventive maintenance: N/A

22a. Environmental attributes, e.g., recycled content, energy efficiency, and/or reduced pollutants: N/A

22b. If applicable, indicate that Section 508 compliance information is available for the information and communications technology (ICT) products and services and show where full details can be found (e.g.

contractor's website or other location.) ICT accessibility standards can be found at:

https://www.Section508.gov/ N\A

23. Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number: NBTZWFCLLFB5

24. Notification regarding registration in System for Award Management (SAM) database: Registered

Final Pricing:

The rates shown below include the Industrial Funding Fee (IFF) of 0.75%.

SIN Awarded Labor Category Site Unit of Issue GSA Awarded Rate

541930 Braille Contractor Site Per word $0.1108

541930 Consecutive Interpretation Customer Site Per hour $119.65

541930 Design & Layout (DTP) Contractor Site Per hour $43.07

541930 Localization testing/QA Contractor Site Per hour $43.07

541930 Proofing Contractor Site Per word $0.0504

541930 Simultaneous Interpretation Customer Site Per hour $119.90

541930 Subtitling Contractor Site Per word $0.1310

541930 Telephonic interpretation Contractor Site Per minute $1.40

541930 Tier 1* Translation Contractor Site Per word $0.1310

541930 Tier 2** Translation Contractor Site Per word $0.1713

541930 Tier 3*** Translation Contractor Site Per word $0.2116

541930 Transcription Contractor Site Per word $0.0504

541930 Voiceover Contractor Site Per word $0.3123

Tier 1* Chinese (ZH), Traditional Chinese (ZH), Simplified Spanish (ES)

Tier 2** Albanian (SQ), Arabic (AR), Armenian (HY), Bosnian (BS), Brazilian Portuguese (BR), Bulgarian (BG), Burmese (MY), Croatian (HR), Czech (CS), Dari Flemish (FL), French (FR), French Canada (FR CA), German (DE), Greek (EL), Haitian

Creole (HC), Hindi (HI), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Khmer (KM), Korean (KO), Pashto

(PS), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Samoan (SM), Serbian (SR), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Somali (SO), Tagalog (TL), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI)

Tier 3*** Amharic (AM), Bengali (BN), Danish (DA), Dutch (NL), Estonian (ET), Farsi (FA), Finnish (FI), Hebrew (IW), Hmong

(HM), Laotian (LO), Latvian (LV), Norwegian (NO), Punjabi (PA), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Urdu (UR), Yiddish (YI) https://www.section508.gov/

Service Descriptions

Translation is the process of rendering the written word from a source language into one or more target language(s). The use of professional human translators involves a three-step process of translation, editing and proofreading (TEP). This ensures that a qualified professional linguist who is a native speaker of the target language and specialist in the subject-matter of the material performs the translation. The purpose of editing and proofreading is to ensure proper usage, style, grammar, flow and punctuation in addition to comparing deliverables against the source material to insure fidelity. Editing and proofreading is performed by a separate linguist to offer an additional perspective which can be invaluable due to regional variations, slang and dialect. While other methods such as machine translation and crowd sourced translation are utilized, the preferred solution is currently professional human translators.

Standard translation services performed by a professional human translator will render deliverables that look and read as if they were originally created by a native of the source language. In some instances, the measures required to ensure this quality are above and beyond the scope of regular translation. Company, brand, product and service names are notoriously difficult to translate since they are often based upon puns, slang, pop culture, play on words or technical jargon. A word-for-word translation is undesirable, or even impossible if a certain concept does not exist in the target culture. Transcreation involves re-creating source material as needed so that it transports the main message across cultural boundaries in a way that makes sense to the target audience when literal adaptation is not effective or possible.

Interpretation is the process of rendering the spoken word from a source language into a target language. It is performed by highly-trained professionals who are not only fluent in the source and target languages, but are also familiar with best practices such as establishing rapport, emotional intelligence and cultural sensitivity, maintaining neutrality and abiding by ethics and privacy laws/standards. There are two primary methods of interpretation.

Consecutive interpreting is practiced in a one-to-one or small group setting. The interpreter waits for the speaker to finish and then conveys the message to participants in another language. In simultaneous interpreting, interpreters translate in real-time while words are being spoken. This is the style of interpreting utilized by the United Nations and involves equipment such as a sound-proof booth, headphones and audio equipment.

Transcription is a process that dictates the spoken word from a person, recording or video into a written transcript which can be translated into other language(s). The service is popular among medical, legal and multimedia applications as well as supporting meetings which include culturally and linguistically diverse participants.

Subtitling is the process of transcribing the audio component of a video, translating the material, and re-integrating it into the video as a written caption. It requires specialized skill in multimedia technology and formats, design/readability techniques and proper timing in sequence with the video.

Desktop publishing (DTP) is multilingual graphic design, editing, layout and typesetting. It involves proper use of challenging font sets including character languages, and accounts for changes in layout from an original to translated document. For example, some languages increase up to 25% in word count from the original source, while others contract by up to 25% Adjustments are necessary to maintain pagination, image placement, layout etc. Good multilingual DTP will also take cultural considerations such as color connotation, image appropriateness and other stylistic elements into account.

Localization Testing (QA) is an important process when translating web sites, hardware, software and applications.

It tests for proper functioning of the finished product including user interface, font sets, input and output, storage and retrieval, time/currency/measurements, cultural sensitivity and technical standards.

Braille is the tactile written word produced for the blind and visually impaired. It is a complex production process with unique standards for the size, punctuation, style, order, and contractions of raised Braille script. Most Braille alphabets follow an international consensus; however, variations among different languages require specialized understanding.

Proofreading is part of the translation process that focuses on ensuring proper grammar, punctuation, spelling and formatting conventions including time, measurement and currency.

Voice Over is a process of rendering a written script into translated audio material. It is performed (often in a studio) by professional voice talent fluent in the source and target languages. Male and female voice talent is available to accommodate for gender-based preferences in conveying material. An example would be a medical hotline with recorded messages featuring health care tips for both men and women’s health issues. Samples of voice talent are frequently provided before work begins so that a choice can be made among varying tone, pronunciation and reading pace.

Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS) Matrix

SCA Eligible Labor Category SCA Equivalent Code Title Wage Determination No

Translator 30110 - Foreign Language Translator 1987-0989

The Service Contract Act (SCA) is applicable to this contract and it includes SCA applicable labor categories. The prices for the indicated (**) SCA labor categories are based on the U.S. Department of Labor Wage Determination

Number(s) identified in the SCA matrix. The prices awarded are in line with the geographic scope of the contract

(i.e. nationwide).