Offering your terminology services
Learn how to offer your terminology services to the Translation Bureau.
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Offering your terminology services
To offer the Translation Bureau your terminology services in official, Indigenous or foreign languages as a service provider, complete the following.
Step 1: Meet the eligibility criteria
You must ensure that you meet the following eligibility criteria:
Eligibility criteria: Terminology services in official languages
To offer your services as an individual, you must:
- be a certified member in good standing of:
- the Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec (OTTIAQ) or
- a provincial or territorial professional association affiliated with the Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters Council (CTTIC)
- have a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field in the case of legal, technical or scientific specialties
- provide representative samples of terminology records in official languages
- be prepared to attend a 2-day information session on the Translation Bureau’s work methods, at your own expense
To offer your services as a firm, you must:
- retain the services of at least 1 person who meets all the above criteria
Eligibility criteria: Terminology services in Indigenous languages or foreign languages
To offer your services as an individual, you must:
- have a university degree and have taken university courses in at least 1 of the official languages and in a language other than an official language
- be recommended by a national or international terminology organization
- provide representative samples of terminology records in the source and target languages
- be prepared to attend, at your own expense, a 2-day information session on the Translation Bureau’s work methods
To offer your services as a firm you must:
- retain the services of at least 1 person who meets the above criteria
Step 2: Register to become a Government of Canada supplier
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Step 3: Register in the Translation Bureau’s directory of linguistic services suppliers
- Complete and submit the registration form for the Translation Bureau’s directory of linguistic services suppliers online.
- Attach the supporting documents required according to the services being offered (see Meet the eligibility criteria).
If you are offering your services as a firm, you must:
- provide the name of each team member
- include the required supporting document for each person