English Writing and Editing Services for the CNSC

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) produces regulatory and communications documents to inform Canadians and licensees about nuclear safety and the CNSC’s nuclear regulatory requirements and activities.

External writers and editors are needed to supplement the capacities of the CNSC’s in-house writing/editing team. Contractors would be asked to do high-quality editing of general, legal, scientific or engineering texts within the nuclear sector, and to conform to the CNSC’s writing styles, standards and terminology norms.

The CNSC requires the services of up to three (3) external Contractors to provide English writing and editing services to assist on a variety of projects on demand when volumes and/or urgent timeframes cannot be met by internal staff.

During the period of the contract, the Contractor will be required to provide English writing, editing services and discuss writing and/or editing needs with CNSC Project Manager on a project-by-project basis. Meetings may be needed with CNSC contacts if clarity or more information is required. All projects will result in the delivery of quality English text in MS Word format delivered electronically to CNSC.

Quality Assurance

The Contractor shall initiate whatever quality control procedures are necessary to achieve error-free writing and editing, including but not limited to:

Quality assurance of the work performed by the Contractor and its sub-contractors.

Service Standards

The bidder must certify in its bid that during the period of the contract

That its appropriate representative (related to the matter at hand), or an alternate acceptable representative to the CNSC will be available by phone or video-conference within 2 hours of the CNSC’s request; and

If the issue or topic of discussion cannot be resolved by phone or video conference, its appropriate representative (related to the matter at hand), or an alternate acceptable representative to the CNSC must be available to meet in person with the Project Manager at the CNSC’s office in Ottawa, Ontario within 2 business days of CNSC’s request.

The Contractor shall deliver to the Project Authority the completed work according to an agreed schedule to be determined.

Tasks

Become familiar with CNSC’s General Writing Style Guide and sample formatted documents/templates Meetings (if required) Review of English documents Writing/editing of English documents Formatting of MS Word docs to CNSC standards using supplied templates Research and interviews with subject-matter experts, where needed Incorporating changes as needed Completion of draft and final English texts in MS Word