Transcription, Translation, & Interpretation Services
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- Solicitation number
- 72001G24R00004
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541930 Translation and Interpretation Services
- Place of performance
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The U.S. Agency for International Development Office of Inspector General seeks to award a blanket purchase agreement for transcription, translation, and interpretation services to support ongoing investigations. Linguistic support is required in various languages and includes in-person, telephonic, and video remote interpretation as well as transcription and translation of documents. Qualified offerors must be registered in SAM.gov, not be debarred or suspended, and provide services within a two-week timeframe. The solicitation will be released on December 22, 2023 and remain open through January 5, 2024. Evaluation will consider offeror qualifications, experience, and price.
There is no set-aside designated for this procurement. Likely NAICS codes include 541930 and 561499, with PSC codes R499 and R499. The agreement includes a one-year base period and four one-year option periods exercisable at the agency's discretion, with a maximum order value of $10,000 and potential for international travel. Qualified interpreters and translators must hold U.S. citizenship and score 3 or above on proficiency tests in English and the target language.
Notice text
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Update #2 · Latest ·
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Investigations (IG/I) requires linguistic transcription, translation, and interpretation services to support ongoing investigations. The office is looking to obtain a qualified Supplier to perform language support services on an as-needed basis under a blanket purchase agreement (BPA). The anticipated period of performance includes a one-year base period and four, one-year, priced, option periods to be exercised unilaterally at the USAID OIG's sole discretion given at least 60 calendar days' written notice to the Supplier.
The objective of this BPA is to provide transcription, translation, and interpretation services for initiated and ongoing investigations.
To be eligible for award, offeror must be registered in SAM.gov and cannot be debarred, suspended, or proposed for debarment.
The solicitation is anticipated for release via SAM.gov on Friday, December 22, 2023 and will remain posted through January 21 2024. The agency proposed solicitation number is 72001G24R00002. International travel will likely be required throughout the course of the contract.
The scope of work consists of the following language support services defined as follows:
- Consecutive interpretation: listening to English or non-English language and orally converting to non-English or English, respectively.
- In-person
- Telephonic
- Video remote
- Transcription: rendering non-English audio and video recordings into written English.
- Translation: replacing written, non-English text (i.e., highly technical contracts or legal documents) into equivalent written English documents (translation-transcription) or replacing written, English text (i.e., highly technical contracts or legal documents) into equivalent written non-English documents (translation-transcription).
- Certified transcripts from professional, certified court reporters to ensure that all spoken words and gestures of a proceeding are recorded to produce an accurate transcript.
The list below provides for the frequently common languages to anticipate. The list includes but is not limited to:
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic (Northern and Southern Levantine, Iraqi, Egyptian, Sudanese, Yemeni)
- Bahasa
- Bengali
- Burmese
- Creole
- Dari
- Farsi
- French
- Hindi
- Khmer
- Laotian
- Malay
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Pashto
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Sinhala
- Spanish (Latin American and European)
- Swahili
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
Update #1 ·
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Investigations (IG/I) requires linguistic transcription, translation, and interpretation services to support ongoing investigations. The office is looking to obtain a qualified Supplier to perform language support services on an as-needed basis under a blanket purchase agreement (BPA). The anticipated period of performance includes a one-year base period and four, one-year, priced, option periods to be exercised unilaterally at the USAID OIG's sole discretion given at least 60 calendar days' written notice to the Supplier.
The objective of this BPA is to provide transcription, translation, and interpretation services for initiated and ongoing investigations.
To be eligible for award, offeror must be registered in SAM.gov and cannot be debarred, suspended, or proposed for debarment.
The solicitation is anticipated for release via SAM.gov on Friday, December 22, 2023 and will remain posted through January 5, 2024. The agency proposed solicitation number is 72001G24R00002. International travel will likely be required throughout the course of the contract.
The scope of work consists of the following language support services defined as follows:
- Consecutive interpretation: listening to English or non-English language and orally converting to non-English or English, respectively.
- In-person
- Telephonic
- Video remote
- Transcription: rendering non-English audio and video recordings into written English.
- Translation: replacing written, non-English text (i.e., highly technical contracts or legal documents) into equivalent written English documents (translation-transcription) or replacing written, English text (i.e., highly technical contracts or legal documents) into equivalent written non-English documents (translation-transcription).
- Certified transcripts from professional, certified court reporters to ensure that all spoken words and gestures of a proceeding are recorded to produce an accurate transcript.
The list below provides for the frequently common languages to anticipate. The list includes but is not limited to:
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic (Northern and Southern Levantine, Iraqi, Egyptian, Sudanese, Yemeni)
- Bahasa
- Bengali
- Burmese
- Creole
- Dari
- Farsi
- French
- Hindi
- Khmer
- Laotian
- Malay
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Pashto
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Sinhala
- Spanish (Latin American and European)
- Swahili
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
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Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| U. S. African Development Foundation (USADF) and Inter-American Foundation (IAF) Audits of Financial Statements | Solicitation | |
| This notice | Pre-Solicitation |
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