NCT- Language Support Services - AWARD

Northamptonshire Children's Trust wishes to invite Tender Responses for the supply of Language Support Services. The objectives of this Framework Agreement is to have a range of Providers that are able to provide high quality Language Support Services to the Trust's clients - both the children and young people the Trust is supporting and their wider family network who may also require the service. The service specification describes a requirement to establish a framework agreement with several Service Providers to supply Language Support Services to clients who speak, communicate or read languages other than English, or who need to communicate in English in non-standard ways e.g. via audio media, either individually or in groups. The Children's Trust is setting up a Framework Agreement for 4 years for the provision of Language Support Services.

The Services sought under this framework agreement will be split into the following four lots:

Lot 1A - Telephone Interpretation Services Lot 1B - Video Remote Interpretation Services Lot 2 - Face to Face Interpretation Services Lot 3 - Translation Services (including hard copy and electronic translation services) Lot 4 - Sensory Impairment Interpretation and Translation

The Contract has an estimated annual budget of £300,000 (exclusive of VAT) for the delivery of the requirement as set out in the Specification.