Awarded contract

4056/LN- Digital Preservation System - AWARD

Details

Value
£128,000
Duration
4 years
Topic
Software package and information systems
Published
28 August 2024

Tender description

The University of Sheffield Library is looking to procure a Digital Preservation System to support the long term preservation of our digital assets. It seeks the procurement of a system that can provide a digital repository with in-built applications that perform a number of functions across the digital curation lifecycle such as ingest, storage, monitoring, preservation actions (including normalisation and migration)and access. The Library is committed to provide assurance that information of long-term value to the University will be managed in a way that ensures preservation of the following attributes: Accessibility - the ability to access the data over the period of time required Integrity - the data is complete and unaltered Authenticity - what the data purports to be Reliability - trusted contents which accurately reflects the output of a transaction Usability - can be located, retrieved, presented and interpreted Additional information regarding the requirements can be found after expressing interest in the opportunity and reviewing the ITT document. Deadline for Submissions: 22/03/2024 at 12pm Deadline for Clarifications: 15/03/2024 at 12pm

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published28 August 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 September 2024
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 August 2028in 2 years

About the buyer

University of Sheffield is a higher education institution whose Procurement Office lets and manages contracts for its schools and departments. Tenders are run through the In-Tend portal, and where required on the Central Digital Platform. The university also buys through regional and national frameworks as a member of the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium, part of UKUPC. They cover catering, furniture, computing, laboratory supplies, postal services, domestic services, professional services and stationery. Once a contract is let, each school and department must buy from the contracted supplier. Lower-value purchases are handled by departments through quotation exercises.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Sheffield's contract awards have been in construction work, industrial machinery and laboratory and precision equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 48000000 · Software package and information systems
  • 48160000 · Library software package
  • 48190000 · Educational software package
  • 48422000 · Software package suites
  • 48517000 · IT software package
  • 48782000 · Storage management software package

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