Courts to cut reporter bill by £3.2m using e-auction
28 August 2012
The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) has used an e-auction to save more than 10 per cent a year off its £10 million annual budget for court reporters and transcription services.
Troy Martin, contracts manager in charge of the e-auction and resulting contract, said the deal could save about £3.2 million over its four-year duration.
The DCA uses on average 150 court reporters a day, normally one per courtroom. They are officially called computer-aided transcription writers, known as cat-writers, and record the words of judges, witnesses...