Published date: 27 May 2025

Last edited date: 27 May 2025

Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.


Closing: 16 June 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Advertising and marketing services - 79340000

  • Business and management consultancy services - 79410000

  • Library and archive services - 92510000

    • Museum-exhibition services - 92521100

    • Preservation services of exhibits - 92521210

Location of contract

WS1 1TP

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

IT-255-886-WP4120

Published date

27 May 2025

Closing date

16 June 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 July 2025

Contract end date

30 June 2027

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Council is seeking a high-quality provider to deliver community engagement programme as per specification for The Walsall Archive for All project.

Walsall Council has received confirmation of funding via the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) to deliver: A new, digital archive project to deepen our understanding of Walsall's cultural evolution. Co-curating untold heritage stories through material captured by local people. Uncovering hidden archives, representing culture across the Borough, and celebrating through exhibitions within shared spaces, online and in-person. Inspired by the borough-wide collection of one local individual, Jack Haddock, audio and visual content will be digitally archived from people across the Borough, telling communities' stories. Celebrating identity, heritage and shared experience.

Through the digitisation of thousands of images and audio history recordings, in partnership with Walsall Council Archives, Walsall for All, and Walsall College, the project will platform inter-generational and inter-cultural representation within a more diverse, accessible and usable digital archive platform - publicly accessible into the future. Creating an Archive for All, a people's archive, representative of the Borough's evolving identity as captured by local people.

More information

Links

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

How to apply

Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.

About the buyer

Contact name

Richard Smith

Address

Darwall Street
Walsall
West Midlands
WS1 1TP
United Kingdom

Telephone

07779 026031

Email

Richard.Smith1@walsall.gov.uk

Website

https://www.walsall.gov.uk/