Specifications include, but are not limited to: Vendor must be registered or licensed as a Certified Court Reporter pursuant to NRS 656. A court reporter shall be present at each proceeding. The reporter shall have the stenographic and electronic verbal recording equipment fully operational not less than 15 minutes prior to the scheduled commencement of a proceeding. The reporter shall be experienced and proficient in setting up and monitoring all equipment used under the terms of this contract. Each assigned reporter must be licensed or certified and have one year or more of experience performing the transcribing of hearings or meetings. The vendor certifies, to the best of its knowledge and belief, that they and/or any of its principals, employees, or subcontractors: Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, or declared ineligible for the award of contracts by any State or federal agency. Have not, within a three-year period preceding this offer, been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for: commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public (federal, state, or local) contract or subcontract; violation of federal or state antitrust statutes related to the submission of offers; or commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false statements, or receiving stolen property; and Are not presently under indictment for, or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity with, commission of any offenses enumerated in the above Section 3.2.5.2 . Are not presently under indictment for, or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity with, commission of any offenses enumerated in the above Section 3.2.5.2 . The reporter appearing at any legal proceeding shall perform duties in a professional manner; and shall be properly attired consistent with professional protocol and appearance expected in a court-like setting. The contractor must provide accurate verbatim transcripts typographically and grammatically free of errors, produced from stenographic reporting methods. The contractor is responsible for furnishing complete transcripts that accurately reflect the full and complete verbatim record of the proceeding. In the interest of readability, however, false starts, stutters, "uhms," "ers" and "ahs," and other verbal tics will not normally be included in the transcript, unless the exclusion of such verbalizations could change a statement's meaning. Moreover, unnecessary duplication should be avoided; for example, when a name is spelled out for the benefit of the reporter, the spelling out of the name, (i.e. J-O-N-E-S) should not be transcribed. If a speaker is quoting someone, only quotation marks (") and not the word "Quote" should appear in the transcript.
