Concession Contract for Digitisation of Council Records and Provision of Public Access Platform

Tender description

Computer archiving services. Library, archives, museums and other cultural services. Miscellaneous businessand business-related services. Scanning services. Records management. Microfilming services. Subscriptionservices. Computer platforms. Remote access software package. Storage management software package.Imaging and archiving system. ESPO on behalf of Leicestershire County Council is seeking to appoint a suitablyexperienced organisation to create digital copies of records held by Leicestershire County Council and to havethese records available to be researched by the general public through an internet portal. The requirement is a service concession contract. The successful Provider will be required to scan, digitise, transcribe, index, audit, web-host and market parish and other archival records belonging to Leicestershire County Council. The digital records will then be hosted on a website set up and maintained by the Provider which will then charge members of the public for access to these digitised records. The County Council will expect the Provider to pay royalties to the County Council in relation to the public use of the archives. At the end of the contract period all materials, including metadata, copyright, digitised images and Intellectual Property rights will remain in the sole ownership of Leicestershire County Council. Keywords: Records, Digitisation, Indexing, Archive