Published date: 9 September 2016

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: 19 November 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

SN2 2EH

Value of contract

£40,000 to £50,000

Procurement reference

P/REF 00000497

Published date

9 September 2016

Closing date

19 November 2016

Contract start date

30 December 2016

Contract end date

30 June 2018

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Historic England invites tenders for a project to develop a new technical platform and new governance arrangements to enable the heritage sector to better develop, publish, manage, fund and host Research Frameworks.

Our aim is to:-
• Create a sustainable platform for all future Research Frameworks in the heritage sector
• Better connect and co-ordinate heritage research across geographical and thematic/period subject areas

The objectives are to:
• Develop the technical platform to:

o enable the efficient development and management of the frameworks by their own research communities
o enable research frameworks to be better accessed, cross-searched and implementable
o Save the sector time and money that would otherwise be needed to develop separate systems for publication and management of research frameworks

• Develop a business model to cover:
o the governance of the platform in the future o licensing and copyright o future funding options for facilitation of the user community, hosting, maintenance and development

Due to the scope of the work anticipated, we welcome tenders from consortia to provide range of necessary skills and experience.
o Technical development of online collaboration platforms
o Hosting and long-term availability of internet resources
o Data standards, semantic search, and models in the heritage sector
o Understanding of how online communities work
o Understanding of historic environment research
o Local authority heritage management

Deadline date Friday 18th November

Contact Dan Miles for information if required

More information

Links

Additional text

Suppliers interested in submitting a bid for this contract should express an interest via the Historic England procurement system InTend: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/historic-england/aspx/Home

Information on registering as a supplier on InTend can be found on the Heritage Protection Commissions Current Tenders webpage (https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/grants/our-grant-schemes/grants-available/hpc/tender-opportunities/) or requested via an email to hpcptenders@HistoricEngland.org.uk



Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost.co.uk/historic-england/aspx/Home

About the buyer

Contact name

Gareth Watkins

Address

Firefly Avenue
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN2 2EH
United Kingdom

Telephone

07825 844555

Email

gareth.watkins@HistoricEngland.org.uk

Website

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/historic-england/aspx/Home