Archival services for former Irish Land Commission records

Tender description

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine wishes to procure archival services to undertake a 12-month pilot cataloguing and re-housing project, in order to devise a comprehensive project plan for cataloguing all of the records of the former Irish Land Commission. The plan will also enable the Minister to estimate the resources required to deliver the full cataloguing and preservation project, as well as the costs and timeframe for delivery. The successful tenderer will be contracted to perform professional duties in connection with the sorting, cataloguing, numbering, rehousing of the Land Commission records, and will liaise with National Archives’ staff in preparation for future transfer. This 12 month contract will comprise a team lead by a Senior Archivist and two Archivists all working full-time (5 days a week) on-site in the Records Branch, Clonminam, Co. Laois. The pilot project will form the basis of a complete listing of the records of the Land Commission, through the creation of practical workflows and procedures for all records series. Working under the guidance and oversight of the National Archives, the outputs will comprise: • cataloguing and rehousing of a specific representative sample of records (identified in conjunction with the National Archives) • defining time frames and creating a comprehensive project plan for the entire Land Commission collection • creating efficient workflow documents and procedures for cataloguing, numbering and rehousing (in accordance with National Archives requirements) • identifying distinct series of records within the main collection suitable for immediate transfer to the National Archives