Development of Guidelines for the Translation of Legal Documents from English to Swahili and the Universal Accessibility of Web Content

Improving Public Access to Legal Information through Impact Sourcing (IMPACT-I.S.)

Request for Expression of Interest

Ref: EOI/003/2011-2012

Consultancy Services for the Development of Guidelines For:

I. The Translation of Legal Documents from English to Swahili; and

II. The Universal Accessibility of Web Content

Through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Council for Law Reporting, is seeking the services of a consultant to develop universal web content accessibility guidelines and customize the guidelines into sample templates for each of the following types of web content: Judicial opinions; Acts of Parliament; Bills of Parliament; Legal Notices; Kenya Gazette Notices; Treaties and International Instruments; The Parliamentary Hansard (Records of Parliamentary Proceedings).

The Rockefeller Foundation’s work is specifically aimed at fostering a critical new arm of the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry called Impact Sourcing which employs poor and vulnerable people as principal workers in BPO centers.

Qualification

The ideal consultant will be a firm with a mix of individuals with core competencies (knowledge and professional experience) in:

• Website design and development;
• documenting, customizing and implementing guidelines for the universal accessibility of web content;
• documenting, customizing and implementing guidelines for the translation of legal documents from English to Swahili;
• project management.

Further particulars on the IMPACT-I.S initiative, the scope of work, the deliverables, the qualifications of the consultant/s and other information may be obtained from: www.kenyalaw.org/tenders.

Complete Expression of Interest documents (in plain sealed envelopes if they are delivered by hand or post) with Expression of Interest Reference No: EOI/003/2011-2012 clearly indicated on the cover should be sent either by registered mail or by email or placed in the tender box at the Council’s offices located on Milimani Commercial Courts, Ground Floor, 4th Upper Hill Close, off Ngong Road, Nairobi.

They should be addressed as follows:

EOI Ref No.: EOI/003/2011-2012

The Procurement Unit
National Council for Law Reporting,
P.O. Box 10443-00100
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel No: (+254) (020) 271 27 67, 271 92 31

Email: procurement@kenyalaw.org

The deadline for the submission of Expressions of Interest is January 3 2011 at at 1100hrs.

Chief Executive Officer
National Council for Law Reporting