Translation & Interpreting Services
Reference: 24-25088
Date response sent: 24/05/2024
Details of enquiry
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
(see table below)
Response sent
When reading our responses below, it might be helpful for you to understand that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist mental health Trust, and not a hospital. We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological, services. We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, and do not have an A&E department.
We do not record our translation and interpreting data and costs in a way that enables us to split out the different types of language services used as we have a single accounting code to record all types of interpreting and translating, and so it is all coded and reported alike as a single expenditure type. We are unable to provide you with a breakdown of spend for the different language service types.
| What was your overall 23/24 spend for interpretation and translation services? | Apr’23 – Mar’24
£117,572.77 |
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| What was your overall 22/23 spend for interpretation and translation services? | Apr’22 – Mar’23
£46,787.64 |
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| What was your overall 21/22 spend for interpretation and translation services? | Apr’21 – Mar’22
£82,425.49 |
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| Please confirm the following details for your provider(s) of interpretation services for each year: | |||
| Provider name | DA Languages for years 2021 to 2024 |
We cannot provide any details on scope of contract and value of spend as we have just the one cost code for all translations and interpreting – see explanatory paragraphs at the beginning of our response above
| Current contract start date | 25 March 2024 |
| Current contract end date | 24 March 2026 |
| Any extension options available under the existing contract | No |
| How was this contract awarded? | direct award |
| Which procurement framework was used to award this contract? | NHS LPP Framework |
| Have service credits been applied in the last 12 months?
If yes, what performance failure was this linked to? |
No |
| Is there is an exclusivity clause, which would prevent you from piloting additional or complementary interpreting services during the duration of your current contract? | No |
| From which budget within your organisation are interpreting services funded? | Translation and Interpreting Budget |
| Which staff member/job role is responsible for signing off that budget? | The Director of Finance |
| Which staff member/job role manages the interpretation services contract(s)? | The Procurement Manager, procurement@tavi-port.nhs.uk |