Published date: 6 December 2021

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: 10 January 2022, 12am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Catalogues - 22461000

  • Computer back-up and catalogue conversion services - 72900000

  • Computer catalogue conversion services - 72920000

Location of contract

SW7 2DD

Value of contract

£15,000

Procurement reference

IT-492-1100-SCM2528M

Published date

6 December 2021

Closing date

10 January 2022

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

31 January 2022

Contract end date

31 July 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Science Museum Group's online collection will be five years old in December 2021. In half a decade, the site has undergone continuous enhancements, including the addition of new features like deep zoom, 3D object scans, video and audio players. The quantity of digitised objects has expanded rapidly, with One Collection delivering the vast majority of new records and images. From a base of 5% of the collection online with an image, we reached 35% in November 2021, and the work outlined below should take us to 63% by 2023. The audience for the online collection is also growing, with visits now exceeding 100,000 each month.

In response to the growth in content and users, the next phase of Collections Online must focus on improving user experience: exploration, search and discovery, while the One Collection digitisation programme continues to add breadth. This project must also consider the longer-term roadmap for online collections (archive digitisation, born digital collections, etc.) and will establish foundations for these initiatives in the decade ahead.

More information

Links

Additional text

You can view our tender documents and apply for the opportunity here: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sciencemuseumgroup/aspx/Home

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Ada Chan

Address

Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DD
United Kingdom

Telephone

020 7942 4582

Email

Ada.Chan@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk

Website

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk