Bid Announcement for Translation Services

Bid Announcement for Translation Services      

Location: Jakarta

Period of performance: January – December 2018

The USAID Mitra Kunci Initiative is a five-year, $22.8 million, USAID-funded program that promotes more inclusive economic growth by improving access to workforce and entrepreneurial skills for poor and vulnerable youth. Mitra Kunci provides Indonesia-led project implementers and workforce stakeholders with technical support, connections, and platforms to help build a more robust and responsive workforce development ecosystem. In addition to management support, capacity building, and coordination, Mitra Kunci technical assistance includes identifying, piloting, and scaling new workforce development approaches and innovations. The ultimate goal of Mitra Kunci and USAID/Indonesia’s inclusive workforce development project (KUNCI) is to equip and connect 200,000 poor and vulnerable young Indonesians with learning and livelihood opportunities.

Mitra Kunci seeks a qualified company to provide translation services of technical reports (quarterly and annually), manuals, newsletters, articles and other types of document from English to Bahasa Indonesia and/or Bahasa Indonesia to English to support program implementation

To meet the qualification to conduct the services, the firm/s must demonstrate:

1. at least 3 years of corporate experience providing translation services;  
2. familiarity in delivering services for donor-funded projects (such as from USAID, DFAT, etc), preferably hold an American Translators Association (ATA) certificate and/or other Professional License/Certificate;
3. highly qualified and experienced personnel with an excellent understanding of technical terms related to youth, workforce, governance, education, gender and social inclusion; native-speaking translators are strongly preferred;
4. an ability to meet the required delivery time lines of fully satisfactory deliverables.

Interested firms who fulfill the above requirements shall express their interest to receiving the complete Request of Proposal package to IWDP_Procurement@dai.com by close of business Jakarta time (17:00) on January 8, 2018.