Issue - meetings

This report requests authority to award a contract for Translation and Interpreting Services as required by Contract Standing Order No 88. This report summarises the process undertaken in selecting the supplier for the contract and recommends to whom the contract should be awarded.

RESOLVED:

      i.        Cabinet awarded of a contract for Translation and Interpreting Services to DA Languages Limited, for a period of three years from 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2020, with an option to extend for a further year to 31st March 2021.

Councillor Margaret McLennan, Deputy Leader of the Council, introduced the report stating that the  Council currently has a contract with Pearl Linguistics for the provision of its translation and interpreting services.

She clarified that Pearl has been providing these services since 1st September 2015 and the current contract expires on 31 March 2017.

In order to put a new contract in place, a tender exercise has been carried out on behalf of the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent and Harrow, with the aim of appointing one supplier to deliver a managed service for all three Council’s translation and interpreting requirements, whilst achieving cost reductions as a result of the aggregated service volumes and the attractive opportunity that this represents to the market.

RESOLVED:

      i.        Cabinet awarded of a contract for Translation and Interpreting Services to DA Languages Limited, for a period of three years from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2020, with an option to extend for a further year to 31 March 2021.