Closed Captioning Services RFP BAP-2025-08-TK

The California Judicial Council is issuing Request for Proposal BAP-2025-08-TK to procure comprehensive closed-captioning services for multiple state judicial entities and courts. The procurement encompasses services for the Judicial Council, the Supreme Court of California, the Courts of Appeal, the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, and all 58 Superior Courts throughout California. The qualified vendor selected will be responsible for providing full-scale, real-time verbatim closed-captioning services for judicial proceedings, live and pre-recorded meetings, media content, and public forums across these entities. Key deliverables include real-time captioning during court proceedings and other judicial activities, with a primary objective of ensuring accessibility and compliance with legal requirements for closed-captioning services. The proposal submission deadline is May 1, 2026, and interested vendors should review the complete solicitation details on the Courts Bidders/Solicitations web page at https://courts.ca.gov/request/bap-2025-08-tk/rfp/closed-captioning-services. The solicitation was posted on April 6, 2026, providing potential bidders with adequate time to prepare their responses.

The solicitation document should be consulted for specific information regarding set-asides for disadvantaged enterprises, small business designations, or other organizational restrictions that may apply to this procurement. Similarly, details regarding any incumbent vendors, current service providers, or existing technological infrastructure that the selected vendor must integrate with should be obtained from the full solicitation materials. The award value and contract budget for this comprehensive statewide closed-captioning services contract should be clearly specified in the RFP documentation available on the Courts Bidders/Solicitations web page, along with any contract term, renewal options, and performance-based evaluation criteria that will guide vendor selection.