California eProcure #0000040664

OEHHA seeks on-demand translation, document accessibility, and interpretation services

California OEHHA is seeking on-demand language services to support public-facing environmental and scientific information. - Government buyer: California Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), Administrative Services Division, Contracts and Business Services Branch. - OEMs and vendors: No OEMs, vendors, or named service providers are identified in the solicitation. - Services requested: Written translation, website and online-document translation, scientific and technical translation, document layout and formatting, desktop publishing, editing, proofreading, linguistic quality assurance, and in-person or telephone/virtual interpretation. - Languages: Requested translation languages include Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian (Khmer), German, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mixteco, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Zapotec, among others. Interpretation rates are requested for Khmer, Cantonese Chinese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and other languages. - Notable requirements: Translated documents must be fully accessible. Rush translations must be completed within no more than three working days, and the contractor must accommodate OEHHA review and requested revisions. Bidders must demonstrate public-entity experience and scientific translation or interpreting experience. - Examples of materials: Fish advisory signs, invasive-species and synthetic-turf fact sheets, Proposition 65 warnings, and CalEnviroScreen documents. - Pricing and quantity: The agreement budget may not exceed $97,500. The initial notice lists one service line item, Translation and Interpretation Services, quantity 1 EA; the pricing worksheet requests rates by service and language, without estimated usage quantities. - Period of performance: A proposed three-year agreement is described, subject to approval. The pricing worksheet covers four fiscal-year pricing periods; no separate end date or option structure is specified.

Description

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is seeking qualified, experienced language professionals for as-needed written and webpage translation, translation of scientific studies, and real-time in-person and telephonic or virtual interpretation. Written work includes items such as fish advisory signs, program fact sheets, Proposition 65 warnings, and CalEnviroScreen documents. Services include general, premium, website and online document, and scientific or technical translation, as well as interpretation across specified languages. Translated documents provided to OEHHA must be fully accessible; bidders are directed to the IFB packet for details.

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