Provision of legal editing in English and related services

European Central Bank

The European Central Bank (ECB) is seeking suppliers to edit legal documents drafted in English and provide related services. It intends to award several framework agreements (the ‘contracts') to the suppliers offering the best value for money. Where available, the ECB may award up to 10 contracts.
The ECB's Legislation Division prepares ECB legal instruments in the official EU languages, ensuring that such texts are legally and linguistically consistent. It also publishes the ECB's legal framework on its website and other legal publications (e.g. the legal working paper series) in the relevant official languages of the EU. Moreover, lawyer-linguists provide expertise to the ECB on EU Member States' national laws, among other things for the ECB's convergence reports, verification reports and other official legal documents.
The Legislation Division currently has a team of 4 full-time lawyer-linguists with English as their main language, whose principal tasks are editing legal documents drafted in English (e.g. draft legislation, contracts, reports on legal topics) and translation into English from other EU languages. To help the Legislation Division cope with an additional workload and to cover for routine absences, the ECB is now seeking offers from experienced freelance external legal editors or agencies who can provide external legal editors who can edit legal documents drafted in English to a professional standard and provide the other lawyer-linguist services described below.
Successful suppliers will be awarded a framework service agreement and form a pool of contractors to whom assignments (orders) will be awarded based on the ranking system determined as a result of this procurement procedure. The first ranked contractor has the first option to accept a specific order. If the first ranked contractor is not available for or declines the order, the ECB will immediately contact the next ranked contractor until the order is awarded.
Contractors will be invited from time to time to work both remotely, receiving and submitting their work by e-mail, and in-house at the ECB's offices in Frankfurt-on-Main (e.g. covering for a staff member's absence).

Deadline
Die Frist für den Eingang der Angebote war 2014-07-07. Die Ausschreibung wurde veröffentlicht am 2014-05-27.

Anbieter
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