Stenography Services for NI Public Inquiries

Descriptions

To assist the Chairs in implementing the Inquiries as required by their separate Terms of Reference, the Inquiries Act 2005 and Inquiry Rules 2006, bespoke Inquiry legislation, and the Protocols, and with a particular emphasis on fairness, cost-effectiveness and timeliness, the Northern Ireland Civil Service and the Northern Ireland Office wish to procure stenography and transcription services to support multiple concurrent inquiries. The Contractor must provide the following, Provision of accurate, real-time transcripts of oral hearings (including translated versions, if required); Provision of daily finalised transcripts for Inquiry records within two hours of the end of the oral hearing; and • Initially inquiry locations are expected to be (this will be determined by each inquiry): Bradford Court, 1 Bradford Court, Galwally, Belfast and Corn Exchange, 31 Gordon Street, Belfast. The Contractor will also be required to provide ad-hoc stenography and transcription services at external locations across the UK or in the Republic of Ireland.