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ClosedStage · tender

British Library

002604 Digital Preservation Repository

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£2.4m
Deadline29 Sept 2025
Published20 Aug 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 20 Aug 2025ClosedCloses 29 Sept 2025
Who to contact
nikki.drydale@bl.uk
+44 1937546146

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£2.4mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

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The brief

Digital preservation repositories are essential for effective custodianship, management, and preservation of modern digital library collections.

The purpose of this procurement is to deliver a newly sustainable digital collections preservation repository that will re-establish our strategic capability to support very large-scale acquisition, management, and long-term preservation of an exceptionally diverse and ever-growing digital collection.

The contract shall be awarded in its entirety and will not be let in lots due to the economic and practical efficiencies presented by a single contract delivery model.

To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=974769739

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The purpose of this procurement is

The purpose of this procurement is to deliver a newly sustainable digital collections preservation repository that will re-establish our strategic capability to support very large-scale acquisition, management, and long-term preservation of an exceptionally diverse and ever-growing digital collection.

02

The contract shall be awarded in its

The contract shall be awarded in its entirety and will not be let in lots due to the economic and practical efficiencies presented by a single contract delivery model.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058286
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
050036-2025
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