Translation and interpreting services contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most translation and interpreting services contracts took 53% of them (32 of 61).
• The median contract, £335k, is 3.4 times the median across office & administrative contracts (£98k).
• London had the most contracts: 10, or 16% of the total.

1. 1Scottish Government2 contracts£18.0m
2. 2University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust2 contracts£6.0m
3. 3Hull City Council2 contracts£1.6m
4. 4Staffordshire County Council2 contracts£1.3m
5. 5St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£674k
6. 6Central Bedfordshire Council2 contracts£255k
7. 7West London NHS Trust1 contract£3.0m
8. 8NHS North East London Integrated Care Board1 contract£2.6m
9. 9Social Security Scotland1 contract£2.0m
10. 10Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust1 contract£2.0m

1. 1DA Languages12 contracts£5.5m
2. 2Language Line Solutions7 contracts£1.2m
3. 3Absolute Interpreting & Translations Ltd6 contracts£1.2m
4. 4WORD360 Limited5 contracts£6.6m
5. 5AA Global Language Services Limited4 contracts£1.2m
6. 6Sign Solutions3 contracts£5.6m
7. 7Premium Linguistic Services3 contracts£1.9m
8. 8Language Empire3 contracts£855k
9. 9Silent Sounds Communications Ltd2 contracts£3.1m
10. 10THE LANGUAGE SHOP LIMITED2 contracts£794k

Latest

• NEL Interpreting and Translation Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £2.6m

  NHS North East London Integrated Care Board to WORD360 Limited · Awarded 25 September 2026

• PROVISION OF INTERPRETING AND LANGUAGE SERVICES (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £149k

  London Borough of Brent to DA Languages · Awarded 23 September 2026

• Interpreting, Translation & Transcription (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £50k

  Scottish Social Services Council to supplier not published · Awarded 15 September 2026

• AT1461 Lot 1 - Managed Service for all Interpretation, Translation and Transcription Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.2m

  Luton Borough Council to Premium Linguistic Services · Awarded 8 September 2026

• SP-24-010 Interpreting, Translation & Transcription Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £35k

  Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (Care Inspectorate) to supplier not published · Awarded 3 September 2026

• Language Services 2026-2031 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.8m

  Lancashire Constabulary to DA Languages · Awarded 10 August 2026

• Interpretation and translation services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £10k

  Wilton Park to Cultural Bridges · Awarded 10 August 2026

• CBC-1880-T-SK - Translation and Interpretation Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  Central Bedfordshire Council to Absolute Interpreting & Translations Ltd · Awarded 29 July 2026

• Language translation (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £29k

  The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust to DA Languages · Awarded 24 July 2026

• Language Interpretation, Translation and Transcription Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £65k

  Milton Keynes City Council to AA Global Language Services Limited · Awarded 16 July 2026

Largest

• Interpreting, Translation and Transcription

  £9.0m

  Scottish Government to supplier not published · Awarded 13 July 2026

• Provision of Language Services on Behalf of University Hospitals of Leicester (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.0m

  University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to Word360 Ltd Main · Awarded 30 June 2026

• West London Interpretation and Translation Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £3.0m

  West London NHS Trust to Silent Sounds Communications Ltd · Awarded 5 January 2026

• The Provision of Interpreting, Translation and Transcription Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £2.0m

  Social Security Scotland to supplier not published · Awarded 10 November 2025

• Provision of Translation & Interpretation Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £2.0m

  Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to Sign Solutions and WORD360 Limited · Awarded 31 March 2026

One contract or managed service covering two or more language modes (spoken interpreting, BSL, written translation, transcription) through a single provider and booking route.

• Translation and interpreting contracts and frameworks
• Managed one-stop-shop language services
• Spoken and non-spoken interpreting with translation
• Translation and transcription for investigations and fitness-to-practise cases
• Language services for public inquiries

• Single-mode components -> off.lang.spoken-language-interpreting, off.lang.bsl-deaf-communication-support, off.lang.written-translation or off.lang.transcription-minute-taking
• Welsh-only contracts -> off.lang.welsh-translation-interpreting
• Quality assurance of language providers -> off.lang.language-services-unspecified
• Bilingual advocacy -> another industry: social-care
• Interpreters and translators as temporary agency staff -> another industry: recruitment-hr

• Residential childcare
• AI note taking