BPA, LRD court reporting services
Closed Solicitation Posted
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- Solicitation number
- W912P524T10WP
- Agency
-
ENDIST Nashville
US Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- Total Small Business
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 561492 Court Reporting and Stenotype Services
- Place of performance
- Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD), is seeking a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for Court Reporting Services to provide verbatim transcription of meetings, conferences, depositions, and administrative proceedings. The solicitation requires court reporters to attend proceedings virtually or in-person, capture spoken dialogue using specialized equipment, identify speakers, report actions and gestures, and prepare accurate transcripts. Contractors must have a minimum of two years of experience and be certified by the National Court Reporters Association or possess equivalent qualifications. The solicitation requires strict confidentiality, with court reporters instructed to never consider any statements as "off the record" unless specifically designated by an administrative judge. Proposals are due by May 1, 2025, with the contract posted on April 7, 2025.
The contract is set aside as a Total Small Business procurement, specifically targeting Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) vendors. The BPA will award up to six commercial service contracts with a firm-fixed price structure, with each call order having a maximum limit of $250,000 and an overall BPA capacity of $5,000,000. The performance period runs from the award date through May 1, 2030, with individual call order periods to be established separately. Potential performance locations include multiple cities such as Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Huntington, Louisville, Nashville, and Pittsburgh. The primary place of performance is Nashville, Tennessee, and the contract falls under NAICS Category 561492 for Court Reporting and Stenotype Services, with a Product Service Code (PSC) of R606 for Administrative Support Court Reporting.
Notice text
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD), anticipates a firm fixed-price Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for Court Reporting Services/Transcription to create verbatim transcripts of meetings, conferences, depositions, arbitrations, and/or administrative proceedings, including hearings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Merit Systems Protection Board. These transcripts ensure a complete, accurate, secure, and confidential legal record of the meeting, conference, deposition, and/or administrative proceeding, and document all statements made during the meeting, conference, deposition, arbitrations, and/or administrative proceeding.
The Government anticipates the following services:
1. Attend (virtually or in-person) meetings, conferences, depositions, and/or administrative proceedings that require written transcripts;
2. Capture spoken dialogue with specialized equipment, including stenography machines, video and audio recording devices, and covered microphones;
3. Never consider anything any person says to be "off the record" unless the presiding administrative judge expressly designates a portion of the proceeding as such;
4. Report speaking identification, terms, gestures, and actions;
5. Read or play back all or a portion of the proceedings upon request from the Agency Representative or Administrative Judge;
6. Ask speakers to clarify inaudible or unclear statements or testimony;
7. Review notes for names of speakers and technical terminology;
8. Prepare transcripts for the record;
9. Edit transcripts for typographical errors; and
10. Promptly produce copies of transcripts and recordings when requested by an administrative judge or by any party who has agreed to pay the fees stated in the call order.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| W912P525QA005 Solicitation BPA for Court Reporter.pdf |
Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| BPA, Court Reporting Services | Solicitation | |
| This notice | Solicitation | |
| BPA, Court Reporting Services | Pre-Solicitation |
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