Awarded contract

Academic Digitisation & Licensing: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Persia: from Silk Road to Soviet Rule

Details

Buyer: The National Archives
Supplier(s): Adam Matthew Digital
Duration: 10 years
Topic: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published: 1 November 2019
Source: ContractsFinder

Tender description

The purpose of this Procurement Process is for The National Archives (TNA) to select a Supplier to digitise and to publish online the Foreign Office records of Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, in a collection provisionally titled: Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan: from the Silk Road to Soviet Rule, 1800-1922. The contract award will include a commercial licence to publish online digital images and associated metadata, and a requirement to fund and undertake all the necessary activities to make that possible - including conservation, digital image capture, transcription of data to allow for meaningful searches of the records, and online publication. TNA expects that this contract will comprise a licence to publish the records online for a period of ten years with potential options to renew. TNA expects that the appointed Supplier will deliver the contract at nil cost to TNA, and will also deliver a royalty return to TNA during the contract period, in consideration for the licence to publish the Collection

Timeline

Completed: Award date9 August 2019
Completed: Award published1 November 2019
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date18 August 2029in 3 years

About the buyer

The National Archives is a non-ministerial government department that manages its own tenders and contracts. Tenders and contracts are published on Contracts Finder, the government's central platform for opportunities. Larger tender documents and the resulting awarded contracts are published online in full under central government transparency rules. A licensing team runs a separate tender route for suppliers wanting to digitise, transcribe or publish its historical records. Licensing opportunities are advertised on the archive's own website as well as on Contracts Finder. Successful licensees cover their own project costs and pay royalties back to the archive.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of The National Archives's contract awards have been in business services, software and information systems and IT services.

Relevant CPV codes

72000000 · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services
79000000 · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
80000000 · Education and training services
92000000 · Recreational, cultural and sporting services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-national-archives.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-national-archives.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-national-archives.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-national-archives.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-national-archives.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-national-archives.gov