Published date: 28 October 2022

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


Closing: 23 November 2021, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

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Location of contract

TW9 4DU

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

TNA403

Published date

28 October 2022

Closing date

23 November 2021

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

4 January 2022

Contract end date

3 January 2032

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

The National Archives (TNA) is seeking expressions of interest from potential partners to digitise and to publish online Colonial Office, Foreign Office and Overseas Development records relating to twentieth century environmental history. The contract award would include a commercial license to publish online digital images and associated metadata, and a requirement to undertake all the necessary activities to make that possible - including conservation, digital image capture, use of metadata to allow for meaningful searches of the records, and online publication. TNA expects that the appointed Supplier will deliver the contract at NIL cost to TNA, and will also deliver a royalty return to TNA during the contract period, in consideration for the licence to publish the Collection.

Environmental History is the study of how humans have interacted with the environment in the past. It encompasses the role of nature through human history in a broad social, political, economic and cultural analysis. This collection of up to 2,367 documents will be an important resource enabling the study of colonial and post-colonial environments in the twentieth century, from 1899 up to the 1990s. The early material addresses popular themes such as imperial forestry, wildlife conservation and national parks, soil conservation, tropical disease research, colonial land tenure, industrial development and agriculture. Later material is drawn from the Overseas Development departments and focuses on development aid in the context of natural resources, energy, population and public health, urbanization, pollution, warfare, human responses to natural disasters, renewable technology and climate.

If this opportunity is of interest to you, please email us at procurement@nationalarchives.gov.uk by 5pm (UK time) on 23 November 2021.


More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Licensing Opportunity - Environmental History in the Twentieth Century

  • Opportunity
  • Published 9 November 2021


Award information

Awarded date

9 June 2022

Contract start date

27 August 2022

Contract end date

26 October 2032

Total value of contract

£0

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Cengage Learning Inc

Address

20 Channel Center Street
Boston
MA 02210
USA

Reference

No reference - other

Value of contract

£0

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Additional details

This is an income generating contract delivered at nil cost to The National Archives. The income generated will depend on the commercial performance of the materials licensed hereunder.


About the buyer

Address

RUSKIN AVENUE
RICHMOND
TW94DU
England

Email

procurement@nationalarchives.gov.uk