Published date: 8 June 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: 12 July 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Magnetic tapes - 30234700

  • Linear Tape-Open (LTO) cartridges - 30237360

Location of contract

W1T 1LN

Value of contract

£450,000

Procurement reference

IT-190-338-2022/293

Published date

8 June 2022

Closing date

12 July 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 August 2022

Contract end date

1 July 2026

Contract type

Supply 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?

Yes

Description

The British Film Institute seeks tenders for the supply of Spectra-certified data tapes.

The BFI and its strategic partners are responsible for the preservation and accessibility of a significant share of the UK's film heritage. The film collections encompass the entire history of film production and include examples of an extremely wide range of formats and systems, which are being copied onto modern digital media as part of our mass migration strategy. The BFI also currently has a responsibility to record and archive sixteen channels of UK television output. The BFI, therefore, has an ongoing requirement for certified data tape stock and it wishes to establish a four-year framework agreement with a reseller or a number of resellers to fulfil that requirement.

The BFI's Digital Preservation Infrastructure has a dual data library system, which incorporates separate, automated LTO (Linear Tape Open) and IBM TS (Tape Storage) data tape robots. Therefore, both LTO and IBM sets of stock are required to provide secure and resilient long-term data preservation.

Spectra-certified stock is required to fulfil the performance and quality criteria essential to the very stringent requirements of the BFI National Archive digital preservation system.

Current BFI's requirements are:

o LTO-8 (aiming to move to LTO-9 within the next year); and
o IBM 3592 JE.

The framework agreement is envisaged to be with a number of suppliers and the duration is four years. The estimated value for the duration of the agreement is up to ?450,000.

Full details are set out in the ITT.

Closing date for receipt of tenders: 12:00 noon on 12 July 2022

More information

Links

Additional text

To take part in this tender, please visit our website, at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/bfi/aspx/Tenders/Current , where you will need to register, if you haven't already, and express an interest in this opportunity to access the relevant documents. Please note expressions of interest will only be accepted via the portal.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : Yes

About the buyer

Contact name

Henry Vivian-Neal

Address

21 Stephen Street
London
London
W1T 1LN
United Kingdom

Telephone

020 7173 3299

Email

Henry.Vivian-Neal@bfi.org.uk