Extract from Cassandra Este “It’s the “Mother of All EU Language Translation Contracts” and just about every vendor wants it”
29 March 2019 (Brussels, Belgium) – Not every language service provider is keen on public sector business. The bidding process tends to be transparent, margins tend to be tight, and, as in many other verticals, there is a set of providers specializing in that particular niche. That said, if the public sector is among your focus areas and you have a presence in Europe, it does not get much bigger than this RFP. The European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) has just published a new call for tenders for translation into 19 languages from multiple source languages. The new contracts will replace the existing translation contracts, which are set to expire at the end of 2019.
