Awarded contract

WP4019 Digital Preservation & Storage Service

Details

Value
£42,600
Duration
3 years
Topic
Miscellaneous software package and computer systems
Published
26 February 2026

Tender description

Walsall Council requires digital preservation software to ensure the long-term accessibility and integrity of digital content and to ensure that valuable digital content is preserved for future use. The Digital Archive Management solution requires both a platform for public access and the back office processes that will give us the ability to manage the collection (Uploading different media and file formats, cataloguing, recording the metadata etc).

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date20 December 2024
  2. Completed: Award published26 February 2026
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date30 November 2027in 14 months

About the buyer

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council governs the borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, and buys as a local authority with its own procurement team. Contract opportunities are advertised on Find a Tender, the UK government's central procurement platform introduced under the Procurement Act 2023. Suppliers register both an organisation profile and an administrator account there before submitting a bid. Buying decisions follow the council's Innovating our Success Commercial Strategy 2024-2029. Social value sits alongside price and quality in every award decision. A public contracts register lists every agreement the council has awarded.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council's contract awards have been in education and training, software and information systems and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 48900000 · Miscellaneous software package and computer systems

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