Published date: 1 December 2021
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Opportunity (published 1 December 2021, last edited 2 December 2021)
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Contract summary
Industry
Scanning services - 79999100
Location of contract
United Kingdom
Value of contract
£45,000
Procurement reference
CORNWALL001-DN585000-63131672
Published date
1 December 2021
Closing date
17 December 2021
Closing time
11:59pm
Contract start date
22 January 2022
Contract end date
22 January 2024
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?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Planning has at least 500,000 Microfiche slides with planning records dating back to 1947. These are scanned and converted to digital copies as required for property searches, but the slides are getting old, and many are deteriorating quite rapidly.\r
Currently the scanner used is a manual one which requires each image to be located by hand, a rectangle drawn arounds the image and then for each image to be scanned individually. There may be around 20 images on each slide, so about 10 million images to scan in total. This is many decades of work.\r
Cornwall Council is the largest planning authority in the Country and as such has more planning records than most other authorities.
About the buyer
Contact name
Jo McCabe
Address
County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
TR1 3AY
United Kingdom
Telephone
+44 1872224248
Website
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