Tender Translation Services

For over 30 years we have been preparing tenders and bid translations for clients in every corner of the world.

Our technical translation procedures are designed to give you the best chance of winning the bid – both in terms of technical content and localised style for the specific market.

Translation of Invitation To Tender

We can provide rapid, expert translations of your Invitation to Tender (ITT), enabling you to quickly assess the project’s viability and prepare an accurate bid. We also handle your clarifications, translating questions for the issuing authority and relaying their answers back to your team.

Initially, we provide rapid, on-demand translations of your ITT documents. This allows your team to:

a) Assess Feasibility: quickly determine if you are in a strong position to proceed with the bid.

b) Strategise and Prepare: draft a comprehensive task checklist and allocate resources for the bid process.

We also facilitate seamless communication with the tendering body. Our team can translate your clarification questions into the required language and relay the issuing body’s answers accurately back to your bidders.

Preparing Bid Documents

Once the client has started to assemble their responses, the translation of the bid responses can be started.

Aktuel’s bid and tender translation procedures mean that we spend as much time ensuring that the style of the text and the cultural thrust is right as we do ensuring we have the right technical translators on board to convey your expertise clearly, concisely and with as much weight as possible.

Proofreading Services

All translated text is proofread at least twice (by the proofreader and the project manager).

We will also let you know if we think anything has been missed from the original ITT requirements and advise if the style, tone or structure could be improved.

Precis Services

There are times when it is unclear whether a specific bid procedure is right for a client. In these instances, a full ITT translation is costly and sometimes not necessary.

We provide a precis service at a fraction of the cost, which will extract pertinent information regarding the technicalities of the bid, timings and anything else the client feels is of importance before commencing the time-consuming and often costly process of tendering.