Published date: 16 January 2017

This notice was replaced on 20 March 2017

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Awarded contract (published 20 March 2017)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Recreational, cultural and sporting services - 92000000

Location of contract

TW9 4DU

Value of contract

£0 to £500,000

Procurement reference

TNA090

Published date

16 January 2017

Closing date

24 February 2017

Contract start date

28 March 2017

Contract end date

27 March 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

As part of our innovative new approaches to using our records and data to engage audiences with archives in different ways, we are seeking a Digital Artist to work with TNA to ultimately produce a long term digital art piece.

We have particularly chosen to work with a Digital Artist because TNA is currently in the centre of a digital revolution. The move to taking in more and more born digital material - and the change in the way that our users access archives, increasingly using digitised material online and searching through a digital catalogue - is a key moment in the life of this institution. We want to work with a Digital Artist who can explore this change and bring some of the beauty and excitement of digital possibilities to our audiences.

We believe that any art work for TNA needs to be a point of provocation as well as a beautiful object - it needs to create transparency into TNA's work, inspire conversation, and potentially provoke a greater sense of connection to the organisation. Therefore we wish to work in partnership with an artist to scope a residency which explores and reveals to the public something of the unique footprint of the material and data we hold. We see ideas of opening up unseen things and also giving a sense of scale and impact as key.

The outcome of a first residency (currently planned as a 6 month, part time residency) will be a 'proof-of-concept' temporary exhibition/ digital art piece which will be open to all visitors to the building. This first residency will be a scoping and testing exercise for us to explore the possibilities for a longer-term installation onsite.

We aim to work in partnership with the Appointed Digital Artist to apply for funding to Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts.
Should this first residency be successful, we will look to build further on the proof-of-concept to develop a longer term digital art installation funded through a larger grant application to a funding body, for example the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

We anticipate that the total length of this Contract could be up to 3 years, with 2 optional extension periods of 12 months each (3+1+1).

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About the buyer

Address

Kew
Richmond
TW9 4DU
England

Email

procurement@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk