Language Technology Solution
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SUMMARY
KEY REQUIREMENTS
TIMELINE
Date of this EOI: August 17th, 2026
Closing Date for Receipt of EOI: September 6th, 2026
CONTACTS
Primary procurement contact — name, title, email, and phone
Additional decision-makers and their departments
Issuing Agency
United Nations Headquarters Procurement Division
DESCRIPTION
The procuring organization is seeking a language technology solution to support procedural and technical secretariat functions, authoritative advice, and high-quality conference services, including multilingual meeting and documentation services.
The solution must provide machine translation model APIs that support computer-assisted translation workflows and integrate with an internal CAT system hosted on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Translation capabilities must deliver accurate, fluent, high-quality output in the six official United Nations languages—Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish—as well as German.
Required capabilities also include APIs for evaluating machine translation quality, speech-to-text transcription of meeting recordings in the six official United Nations languages, real-time multilingual voice-to-voice meetings, and automated pre-editing or pre-formatting of English files according to predefined editorial rules and styles.
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Frequently asked questions
- When is the submission deadline?
- Submissions are due September 6, 2026.
- Who issued this RFP?
- It was issued by United Nations Headquarters Procurement Division. The work is located in Nairobi, Kenya; Geneva, Switzerland; Vienna, Austria.
- Who is a good fit for this opportunity?
- Language technology or artificial intelligence software provider
- Proven expertise in machine translation and computer-assisted translation integrations
- Experience supporting Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and German
- Provider of speech-to-text, voice-to-voice, and translation-quality evaluation APIs
- Demonstrated Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services cloud integration capabilities
- Experience delivering multilingual conference, documentation, or international organization solutions
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