Request for Proposal

Translation Services

Oxfam employs more than six thousand people in 90 countries who share a commitment to work together to end poverty and suffering. It is committed to ensure diversity and gender equality within the organization and welcomes applications from women, person with disability and under-represented groups. Oxfam does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on their HIV/AIDS status. The organization has been working in Bangladesh since the War of Independence and has established a permanent country office in 1972. Since then it has responded to all major emergencies in the country. Oxfam’s current program focuses on Economic Justice & Resilience, Gender and Women’s Leadership and Humanitarian Capacity Building and Response.

A simple, inescapable truth underlines everything we do at Oxfam. There’s enough wealth in this world to go around. It’s not unfortunate that people live in poverty. It’s unjustifiable. It’s not their problem. It’s ours too. And with the right support, we can stop poverty and suffering in their tracks. More than 8,000 people already commit their time and talents to our humanitarian and long-term development projects. Now we’re looking for yours.

OBJECTIVE
The objective of this consultancy is to provide translation service to EYW project team at Oxfam.

SCOPE OF WORK
Under the guidance of EYW project team the translator will undertake the following duties and responsibilities.
Translate written documents from/to Bangla and English; Standard translation counts 2000 characters without space to be one page. A high-quality and final translation of the reports will be delivered by assigned timeline.

• Submit all the translated documents in word file and incorporate feedbacks and suggested changes to the translation;
• Communicate with EYW Oxfam team for better understanding about the meanings and appropriate meaning of the write up;
• Proof Read and edit the document;
• Ensure that the translation text is linguistically and grammatically correct and coherent, error free and it should meet high quality standards;
• All texts, including figure and table titles, boxes, captions, sources and covers requires translation and

Please refer to the detailed TOR (Click Here) for this assignment.

Proposal submission Instruction:

The individual/firm must submit the following documents along with Technical & Financial Proposal (including VAT/TAX): The financial proposal should include 15% VAT ONLY. Oxfam will deduct 10% Income Tax at source from the agreed consultancy amount.

For Individual Consultant

• Maximum 2 page CV of Team Leader highlighting related assignments completed with client  name, contract person and mobile number  ( this person must have fulltime engagement during assignment time)
• Other Team members’ one page short CV highlighting related assignment completed
• TIN Certificate ( PDF soft version) 
• Relevant documents from previous assignment. 
• Two references

For Consultancy Firm

• Maximum 2 page organization  profile highlighting related assignments completed with client  name, contract person and mobile number
• Lead Consultant’s ( who will lead the assignment) Maximum 2 page CV highlighting related assignment completed, role in of the completed assignment 
• Other Team members’ ( who will involve in the assignment )  one paragraph short CV highlighting related assignment description of the roles and functions of the consultant and his/her associates, and a description of the level of effort of the associates (eg., full-time, part-time, as needed)
• Organization’s/Firm’s Certificate, TIN and VAT registration
• At least two Contracts of 2 organizations that have recently contracted the consultant to develop related documents.
• Documents in favor of the previous relevant documents.
• At least two references name needed to be mentioned

Please mention the assignment title ‘‘Translation Services” in the subject line during application via below mentioned email submit following two separate pdf files -

• Financial proposal
• Technical proposal should include Expression of Interest, profile of the consultant/firm or individual including experience in handling similar assignments, a work-plan, methodology, Certificate, TIN and VAT registration to hrbd@oxfam.org.uk

Proposal submission deadline: 18th October 2017

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