Published date: 22 November 2017

Last edited date: 22 November 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 1 December 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Document creation, drawing, imaging, scheduling and productivity software package - 48300000

  • Communication and multimedia software package - 48500000

  • Miscellaneous software package and computer systems - 48900000

    • Software programming and consultancy services - 72200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£20,000 to £30,000

Procurement reference

RWM105

Published date

22 November 2017

Closing date

1 December 2017

Contract start date

4 December 2017

Contract end date

28 February 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The complete scope is provided in the Contract Technical Specification entitled "Publishing DITA Technical Content to Microsoft Word".

RWM has produced a generic Disposal System Safety Case (DSSC) to illustrate high-level disposal concepts in a variety of geological settings. At present all documents in the DSSC are written in Microsoft Word and are published in PDF format as standalone documents. There is a clear benefit to RWM and other stakeholders to be able to access this information in a more interactive hyperlinked form and RWM is therefore exploring means to moving to a more modern production process. As part of this update RWM intends to move to authoring safety case documents using a mark-up language, thereby allowing metadata to be captured with document contents. Such metadata includes the identification of information sources (e.g. relating a graph to the underlying dataset or model), quality or approval, and versioning information. A natural endpoint is the transition to a full electronic safety case, however at present RWM requires the ability to continue to produce paper based document submissions in addition to web-enabled versions (often referred to as single source publishing).

A number of DSSC documents have now been converted to DITA and are available in both paper and HTML format. RWM has strict guidelines relating to the format of its published reports and all published documents must meet these guidelines. Associated with these guidelines is a Microsoft Word template which contains appropriate character, paragraph, table and numbering styles to meet these guidelines. At present RWM does not have any means to publish DITA content in a format consistent with these guidelines.

The key objective of the work specified in the Contract Technical Specification (CTS) is to deliver a solution to RWM which converts technical DITA content into an appropriately styled Microsoft Word compatible DOCX/DOCM via a DITAMAP.

More information

Attachments

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Please download the tender documents from this Notice

About the buyer

Contact name

Anthony Potts

Address

B587 Curie Avenue
Harwell Oxford
Didcot
OX110RH
England

Email

tony.potts@nda.gov.uk