40 Companies Awarded Large 5-Year EU Translation Contract
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5-YEAR EU TRANSLATIO
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Introduction
On January 21, 2025, the European Union 
(EU) published a notice detailing the 
awards and selected companies to 
provide translation services, effective 
January 1, 2025, under a tender called 
“126176-2024 – Competition” that was 
announced in February 2024.
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The contract for single and multiple source language documents in the 24 
official EU languages/lots is meant to service the 
Directorate-General for Translation of the European Parliament (EP), the 
European Court of Auditors, the Committee of the Regions of the European 
Union, and the European Economic and Social Committee. This was an open 
tender (i.e., without reserved participation) and had no specific assigned 
budget, although the award notice does list a maximum total contract value of 
EUR 119,048,125.00 million (USD ~123m).
Awardees will provide services for up to 60 months with no geographic 
restriction, which means that they can be located anywhere in the EU and still 
service multiple language lots. Each framework contract issued will have an 
initial duration of 12 months, renewable up to four times.
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40 companies are listed as awardees in the notice, with Acolad being selected 
for the most lots (eight). ORCO S.A. was awarded six lots, and 
INTERTRANSLATIONS was awarded five lots.
PRESTO and Lionbridge were awarded three lots each, and the rest of the 
awardees got one or two lots. There are also six consortia (companies that 
partnered with others to bid on the tender) among the contract winners.
The largest single award is valued at EUR 10,380,200.00 million (USD ~10.7m) 
and was assigned to Lot 11, translation into Irish. It was awarded to 
language services providers (LSPs) Language Training and Translating Ltd., 
based in Ireland, and ACCESS INTERNATIONAL EMEA S.R.L., based in Romania. 
The second largest award is valued at EUR 8,417,500.00 (USD ~8.7m) and was 
assigned to Lot 3, translation into Danish. This lot went to Lionbridge and 
Acolad.
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One of the most interesting aspects of this 
contract is that awardees must disclose 
their translator pool, and these translators, 
along with project managers and legal 
representatives, were required to sign a 
contract annex and pass competency tests.
The contract also mandates a minimum 
daily translation volume for contractors, 
with a EUR 500 (USD 520) penalty for 
refusal to accept assignments. AI 
translation was not explicitly mentioned.
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