Published date: 27 July 2022

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 1 June 2022

Contract summary

Industry

  • Law-courts-related administrative services - 75231100

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Wales

Value of contract

£21,522,874

Procurement reference

tender_300547/1092147

Published date

27 July 2022

Approach to market date

1 June 2022

Contract start date

3 April 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Ministry of Justice (hereafter the Authority) intends to run a competition for the procurement of Court Reporting and Transcription Services (CRT) on behalf of HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS).

The Authority is legally required to record Court proceedings across England and Wales and where requested, produce official transcripts from these hearings. The transcripts are used as evidence in appeals, legal publishing for public interest and form part of case law.

It is the intention that the following transcription services will be procured under a framework agreement:

1. Off-site Transcription Services (OTS) which involves the Court recordings being sent to the relevant supplier where they produce the transcription services based on the contracted service level timeframe.
2. Attendance-based Transcription Services (ATS) comprises stenographers or loggers attending the Court proceeding and then later producing the transcript to the contracted timescales.
3. Real-time Transcription Services (RTS) involves temporarily supplying equipment and production of near-instantaneous transcriptions of proceedings on site.

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Additional text

The planned issue date for the ITT is 22nd August 2022 and the planned tender response date is 26th September 2022.

The MoJ reserves the right to amend or remove part or all of the information prior to full Find a Tender service (FTS) advertisement, and nothing within this notice constitutes any guarantee or binding statement on behalf of the MoJ.

Further details of the services will be set out in the procurement documents.

About the buyer

Contact name

Sarah Burton

Address

102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
England

Email

ccmdopenjustice@justice.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice