Published date: 21 December 2022

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: 27 January 2023, 12am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Specialised photography services - 79961300

  • Studio photography services - 79961350

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£500,000 to £1,000,000

Procurement reference

BIP743073834

Published date

21 December 2022

Closing date

27 January 2023

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

10 March 2023

Contract end date

31 May 2024

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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This Invitation to Tender (ITT) invites proposals for the digitisation of the Courtauld's Witt Library, the Paul Laib Negatives and the Photographic Survey.

Following a pilot project to digitise just over 10% of the total Witt Library, this procurement is for a contract to digitise three collections: the remaining 1.9 million images contained in 16,966 boxes of the Witt Library, approximately 22,000 glass plate negatives produced by photographer Paul Laib, and the 40,000 prints stored in 132 boxes which form the Photographic Survey.

The digitisation of the Witt Library must be completed within 12 months of the commencement date, and upload/publication concluded within 14 months of the commencement date. We accept that a period of no more than 4 months might elapse between the collections being removed by the contractor from Somerset House, and commencement of the 12 month digitisation phase of the project in order to fit in with the supplier's studio schedules and other work they might be undertaking. Digitisation of the Paul Laib negatives must should take place concurrently with the Witt, however digitisation of Photographic Survey prints may wait until the Witt digitisation has been finished, depending the supplier's capacity.

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Additional text

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.

About the buyer

Contact name

Tom Bilson, Head of Digital Media

Address

Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 0RN
UK

Telephone

020 3947 7777

Email

tom.bilson@courtauld.ac.uk