Translation company dials up major contract

Leeds-based language services provider thebigword has been included in a framework agreement to provide telephone interpreting services to a range of public sector organisations in Northern Ireland.

The framework, which will see the company work for the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Education Authority and Northern Ireland Health and Social Care, will run for the next two years with the possibility of an additional one year extension.

The company already holds a range of contracts for translation and interpreting services with public sector organisations across the UK including the £120m agreement with the Ministry of Justice.

Founder and CEO of thebigword, Larry Gould, said: “thebigword has more than three decades of experience providing high quality interpreting services in the public sector. I am delighted that our interpreting services will soon be available to public sector organisation across Northern Ireland.”

thebigword has 11 offices around the world, employs over 600 staff and has more than 15,000 linguists.

The company handles 1,000,000 minutes of telephone interpreting a month and 17,000 face to face meetings, as well as half a billion words of translation.