Trade Agreement: Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
Tendering Procedures: Suppliers on permanent list or able to meet qualification requirements
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
TRANSLATION SERVICES FROM ENGLISH TO FRENCH FOR THE FIELD OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS- COMMITTEE SECTION
Probable start date: May 1st, 2021
Probable contract duration:
The services are required for an initial period of one (1) year from the date of award with two (2) irrevocable option periods to extend the contract by one (1) year.
Solicitation method: Competitive
Number of contracts: The contracting authority may meet this requirement in whole or in part by awarding up to 2 contracts.
Requirement Details
Tendering Procedure: Selective Tendering
This bid solicitation is issued only to suppliers who are pre-qualified in the field of Parliamentary Proceedings - Committee Section, from English to French, for approximately 24,000,000 words, in accordance with the conditions of Supply Arrangement EN966-1403053 of the Translation Bureau’s Directory of Translation Services suppliers.
Nature of texts to be translated
The supplier shall provide French-to-English translation services for the Parliamentary Committee Proceedings Division, Parliamentary Translation Directorate, Translation and Terminology Centre, Translation Bureau.
The workload is normally concentrated in two periods corresponding to the Parliamentary calendar, from October to late December and from February to late June, but work may be required at any time. Saturdays and Sundays are working days. Deadlines are very short (36 hours and 96 civil hours depending on the priority of the text). Suppliers must therefore be able to meet these deadlines.
The texts to be translated will consist of proceedings of parliamentary committees, including witness evidence. They thus require good knowledge of the spoken language, of idiomatic English and French and of political and economic current affairs.
Texts for translation and translated texts will normally be sent by email in the case of Senate texts and will automatically be sent by RTA in the case of House of Commons texts.
Translations must be written in an oratorical style adapted to the language level of the speaker. The supplier shall follow the rules in the following documents: Le guide du rédacteur (2nd edition, 1996 version) and, if the supplier agrees to work into English, The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing (1997 edition). The supplier shall also follow the usage and terminology rules provided by the Project Authority or his/her representative, as well as the rules of the Triguide, a reference document prepared by Parliamentary Committee Proceedings Division that will be provided to the supplier at the beginning of the contract. In case of any divergence among those documents, the Triguide always takes precedence.
Security requirements: There is no security requirement associated with this bid solicitation.
Inquiries:
Inquiries regarding this RFP requirement must be submitted to the Contracting Authority named above.
Request for Proposal (RFP) documents will be e-mailed directly from the Contracting Authority to the Qualified Supply Arrangement Holders who are being invited to bid on this requirement.
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
