Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa CountyProcurement Office201 West Jefferson
Phoenix, Arizona 85003
190148-ROQLanguage Services: Interpreting; Transcription/Translation; American Sign Language
EXHIBIT 3 – Set Rates and Interpreter Credential Guidelines
*SPANISH INTERPRETATION
TIER HOURLY HALF DAY FULL DAY TELEPHONIC (1st
15 minutes)
TELEPHONIC (Each addl
minute)Tier 4; Tier 3;
Federally Certified$95.00 $350.00 $700.00 $20.00 $0.80
Tier 1 & 2 $65.00 $220.00 $400.00 $12.00 $0.80
*LESSER USED LANGUAGES (LUL) INTERPRETATION
TIER HOURLY HALF DAY FULL DAY TELEPHONIC (1st
15 minutes)
TELEPHONIC (Each addl
minute)Tier 4; Tier 3;
Federally Certified$95.00 $350.00 $700.00 $20.00 $0.80
Tier A $90.00 $330.00 $660.00 $15.00 $0.80Tier 1 & 2 $80.00 $300.00 $600.00 $12.00 $0.80
Languages for which there is NOT
an Oral Court Interpreter Exam
Price per event negotiated
between parties
Price per event negotiated
between parties
Price per event negotiated
between parties
Price per event negotiated
between parties
Price per event negotiated
between parties
*AMERICAN SIGN LANGAUGE (ASL & CDI)LICENSE HOURLY HALF DAY FULL DAYLegal A $80.00 $320.00 $640.00Legal C $70.00 $280.00 $560.00
Legal D / CDI $80.00 $320.00 $640.00
*TRANSCRIPTION & TRANSLATION SERVICESTranscription Per Minute / Actual Recording Time
Translation Per Word Uncertified
Translation Per Word Certified
Proof / Edit / Certification Service
Only Per PageSpanish $10.00 $0.15 $0.22 N/A
Lesser Used Languages (LUL) $10.00 N/A $0.22 N/A
Proof/Edit/Certification as a Service N/A N/A N/A $10.00
*The Court/County has set the above set rates for contracted services. Respondents may provide lower billing rates for consideration. Amounts above these set rates will not be considered.
Interpreters are not paid during lunch-hour; interpreters are only paid for time spent interpreting.
Tier 1 credential: covers basic ethics, court knowledge and language abilities in both English and the non-English language.
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Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa CountyProcurement Office201 West Jefferson
Phoenix, Arizona 85003
190148-ROQLanguage Services: Interpreting; Transcription/Translation; American Sign Language
EXHIBIT 3 – Set Rates and Interpreter Credential Guidelines
Tier 2 credential: Candidate who receives a score of 60-69% on each component of the oral court interpreter exam. Tier 2 expires in 24-months from receipt, if interpreter does not re-take and pass oral exam at 70% for Tier 3, the interpreter will revert back to a Tier 1.
Tier 3 credential: Candidate who receives a score of 70-79% on each component of the oral court interpreter exam.
Tier 4 credential: Candidate who receives a score of 80% or higher on each component of the oral court interpreter exam.
Tier A credential: Only available for languages in which there is no oral court interpreter exam; Tier A requires superior language skills in the non-English language and candidates must meet all of the requirements of Tier 1 and score at the highest level on the oral proficiency interview.
ORAL COURT INTERPRETER EXAMS AVAILABLE FOR THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES – TIERS 2 - 4Arabic** Khmer RussianBosnian/Croatian/Serbian*** Korean SomaliCantonese Laotian SpanishFrench Mandarin TagalogHaitian Creole Marshallese*** Turkish***Hmon Polish VietnameseIlocano Portuguese
**The oral court interpreter exam in Arabic uses Modern Standard Arabic for the Sight Translation and Simultaneous portions of the exam and offers a choice of either Arabic Egyptian Colloquial OR Arabic Levantine Colloquial for the Consecutive portion.
***This language uses an abbreviated oral court interpreter exam. The abbreviated exam contains a simultaneous exercise (English into the target language) and a test of English proficiency.
LANGUAGES WITHOUT AN ORAL COURT INTERPRETER EXAM – TIER AAlbanian Japanese PashtoAmharic Kanjobal PersianApache Karen PunjabiAramaic K’iche RomanianAssyrian Kinyarwanda SarpoBanbara Kirundi Seaside GreboBari Kiswahili SenegaleseBassa Grebo Koniaka SinhaleseBengali Konyanke SlovakBulgarian Kpelle SusuBurmese Krahn SwahiliBush Grebo Krio SwedishCambodian Kru TajikCebuano Kunama TamilChaldean Liberian English TarahumaraChuj Loma ThaiChuukese Lorma TibetanComoro Luganda TigrinyaCzech Maay-Maay TonganDari Macedonian Tzeltal
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Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa CountyProcurement Office201 West Jefferson
Phoenix, Arizona 85003
190148-ROQLanguage Services: Interpreting; Transcription/Translation; American Sign Language
EXHIBIT 3 – Set Rates and Interpreter Credential Guidelines
Denga Malayalam TzotzilDinka Malinke UkrainianEwe Mam UrduFante Mandingo UzbekFarsi Mandinka VisayaFrench-Canadian Mano WolofGambia Marathi YorubaGbandi MendiGerman MinaGrebo MoldovanGujarati MontenegrinHebrew NavajoHindi NepaliHungarian NuerItalian Oromo
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Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa CountyProcurement Office201 West Jefferson
Phoenix, Arizona 85003
190148-ROQLanguage Services: Interpreting; Transcription/Translation; American Sign Language
EXHIBIT 3 – Set Rates and Interpreter Credential Guidelines
INTERPRETER CREDENTIAL GUIDELINES
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