Consolidation also manifested itself in the emergence of a relatively
standard production outsourcing framework. The larger multilanguage
vendors (MLVs) took on multilanguage, multiservice projects, outsourcing
the core translation services to single-language vendors (SLVs), one in each
target country. SLVs normally work into one target language only, from one
or more source languages, and either work with on-site translators or
contractors.