Published date: 31 October 2023

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 14 April 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

TW9 4DU

Value of contract

£1 to £2,100,000

Procurement reference

TNA547

Published date

31 October 2023

Closing date

14 April 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 September 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2027

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold)

Anyone may ask to participate, but only those who are pre-selected will be invited to submit initial tenders and to negotiate.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The National Archives' current contract for managing and developing the UK Government Web Archive and the EU Exit Web Archive is due to expire at the end of August, 2023. As such, we invite interested parties to submit bids for a replacement contract to commence in September, 2023. The initial contract period will be 43 months, with three optional extension periods of up to 12 months each.

UK Government Web Archive (UKGWA)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

The Keeper of Public Records and Chief Executive of The National Archives (TNA), is appointed by the Secretary of State for DCMS under the Public Record Act 1958. The Keeper has a broad duty to take all practicable steps for the preservation of public records and also to provide reasonable facilities for the public to inspect and access public records.

Over the last 25 years an important part of the public record has been published on the web. TNA delivers a service to capture these records and make them available to the public. The operating model involves an in-house team alongside a contract for the provision of web archiving services. The contracted services involve crawling government websites, storing the contents in the UKGWA and making the contents available to the public. These records also provide valuable contextual information for other records when they are eventually made available by TNA.

EU Exit Web Archive (EEWA)
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/

The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, Schedule 5, created a duty on the King's Printer (also the Keeper and Chief Executive of TNA) to publish certain documents that were originally adopted as EU legislation, which have been retained and incorporated into UK domestic law. There is also a power to publish other documents, including the decisions of the European Court of Justice. To fulfil this duty, the EEWA serves as a comprehensive archive of EU Law, as it stood at Exit Day and later on Implementation Period Day, as a permanent record of the law at those Completion points.

For both web archives, the contractor will provide crawling services to harvest content from websites, replay services so users can access the archived content, search services, access management services, and hosting management services (the service will be hosted in TNA's AWS account but managed by the supplier).

ITT documents are available on request, from procurement@nationalarchives.gov.uk

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

UK GOVERNMENT WEB ARCHIVE & EU EXIT WEB ARCHIVE

  • Opportunity
  • Published 3 March 2023

Award information

Awarded date

22 September 2023

Contract start date

1 October 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2027

Total value of contract

£2,037,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

MIRRORWEB LIMITED

Address

77-89 Bridge Street
MANCHESTER
M3 2RF
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 08072284

Value of contract

£2,037,000

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

RUSKIN AVENUE
RICHMOND
TW94DU
England

Email

procurement@nationalarchives.gov.uk