Published date: 16 February 2024
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Contract summary
Industry
Library software package - 48160000
Location of contract
South West
Value of contract
£150,000
Procurement reference
20240216111952-105170
Published date
16 February 2024
Closing date
17 March 2023
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
3 April 2023
Contract end date
6 April 2026
Contract type
Supply contract
Procedure type
Open procedure
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Falmouth University are tendering for a Digital Preservation System to support research projects within the cultural heritage sector. Initially it will be used to support the GWITHA project.
GWITHA seeks to establish an open centre for immersive approaches to archives and draw together the rich potential these resources have in supporting the capturing and sharing both the material and intangible cultural heritage of the far Southwest. The nature of site-specific/ landscape theatre has rendered much of its outcomes as resistant to documentation. Thus, GWITHA is a project designed to aid researchers / archivists in capturing, preserving, revivifying and facilitating access to performance practices that have hitherto been difficult or impossible to document in forms idiomatic to their integrity.
The intention is to use volumetric capture and higher order ambisonic sound recording to create digital assets for extended reality (XR) technologies (Augmented and Virtual Reality), and to make digital assets more accessible by addressing the intersectional challenges of regional performance infrastructure (place), preference towards modes of access (neurodiversity); access to site-specific performance (mobility) and the cost of access (wealth), as well as broader issues of representation.
System to be managed by Archives and Special Collections service for Falmouth University and the University of Exeter in Cornwall, part of FXPlus Library and Archives.
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Award information
Awarded date
31 March 2023
Contract start date
3 April 2023
Contract end date
6 April 2026
Total value of contract
£15,000
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
Preservica
Address
32 The Quadrant, Abingdon Science Park
OX14 3YS
Abingdon
United KingdomReference
None
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Contact name
Laura Lay
Address
Penryn Campus
Penryn, Cornwall
TR10 9FE
ENG
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