Published date: 13 October 2020

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 3 November 2020, 1pm

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

£23,331,100

Procurement reference

tender_231062/872201

Published date

13 October 2020

Closing date

3 November 2020

Closing time

1pm

Contract start date

1 August 2021

Contract end date

31 July 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: CRT services are within the scope of services listed in Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) and shall be awarded pursuant to Regulation 74, that is under the Light Touch Regime. The Authority will use a procedure similar to the open

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as the contracting Authorities intend to run a procurement exercise for the delivery of Court Reporting and Transcription Services (CRT).

The MoJ and MoD record hearings which take place in a variety of Courts. Audio recordings provide a true and accurate record of proceedings and are used, when required, to produce transcripts as an official court record.

Transcription Services will be split into the following three services:

1) Off-Site Transcription Services (OTS), covering all off-site transcriptions;
2) Attendance Based Transcription Services (ATS), covering court reporting and stenography, on-site transcription;
3) Real-Time Transcription Services (RTS), covering all instantaneous on-site transcription.

The above services will be split into Lots as follows:

1A: OTS_London
1B: OTS_North
1C: OTS_South
1D: OTS_Midlands & Wales
2A: ATS_Civil & Other
2B: ATS_Crime
2C: ATS_MoD
3: RTS

CRT services are within the scope of services listed in Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) and shall be awarded pursuant to Regulation 74, that is under the Light Touch Regime.

Services are to be contracted for an initial term of 2 years with an option to extend up to 2 further years.

CRT services are within the scope of services listed in Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) and shall be awarded pursuant to Regulation 74, that is under the Light Touch Regime. The Authority will use a procedure similar to the open procedure described in Regulation 27.
The Authority reserves the right to reject all or any of the bids for the competition and not to award a contract to any bidder, without any liability on its part. Nothing in this prior information notice shall generate any contractual obligations prior to the signature of a contract following a competition.
The MoJ will be the contracting authority for the following lots:
- Lot 1A
- Lot 1B
- Lot 1C
- Lot 1D
- Lot 2A
- Lot 2B
- Lot 3
The MoD will be the contracting authority for lot 2C and will lead on the evaluations process for this lot. The MoD will also assist on the evaluations process for OTS lots (1A - 1D).
Bids for all lots will be assessed on a quality/price ratio of 70:30.

Transparency:

HM Government requires that tender documentation issued by government departments for contracts exceeding 10 000 GBP over the life of the contract are published online (www.gov.uk/contracts-finder) for the public. The resulting contract shall also be published. The authority may use its discretion to redact information to protect key commercial interest or on prescribed grounds. Therefore, bidders who wish information not to be published, if successful, should secure agreements with the Authority prior to submission. These could cover key commercial interest, trade secrets and commercial interests which would be prejudiced by publication, all following the test in Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act 20

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Court Reporting & Transcription Services

  • Future opportunity
  • Published 12 March 2020

About the buyer

Address

Ministry of Justice, 102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
England

Email

Transcription_serv@justice.gov.uk