000646 Digital Asset Management and Preservation Solution

The British Library is the UK's national library, with an ever growing analogue and digital collection. Our digital collection is a combination of digitised and born digital, voluntary and legal deposit content that is currently maintained within a bespoke, internally developed digital repository system. Legal deposit content in the system is collected and maintained on behalf of all six legal deposit libraries in the UK, under the Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations (2013).

The current digital repository architecture utilizes a custom-built digital library system and metadata repository storing almost 1PB of content, with new ingest rates of approximately 1.5 TB per day but anticipated to grow to 5-10TB per day over the next few years. Items are replicated across 4 storage nodes located at library premises at St Pancras, Boston Spa, the National Library of Wales and the National Library of Scotland. Content (sound, video, e-books, images etc.) and metadata held in these systems must persist despite changes in the surrounding technical landscape.

The rapid growth in recent years, both in the volume and variety of digital content collected, has necessitated a significant uplift in the functionality, capacity and performance of the system. The complexity, costs and timescales involved make continuation of the current bespoke development approach impractical This procurement is the first in a series of infrastructure renewal projects and we therefore have some flexibility in the exact scope of the product to be procured. Nonetheless, the purpose of this procurement is to select suppliers who can clearly demonstrate their capability and capacity to meet some minimum requirements in the following five key areas:

• Ingest • Data Management • Architectural Fit • Preservation Planning • Operational Service and Contractual • Implementation and Migration • Archival Storage • Access

Additional information: Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender~: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once): https://bl.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register - Accept the terms and conditions and click 'I agree' - Enter your correct business and user details - Note the username you chose and click 'Save' when complete - You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure) 2. Express an Interest in the tender - Login to the portal with the username/password - Click the 'PQQs Open To All Suppliers' link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier) - Click on the relevant PQQ to access the content. - Click the 'Express Interest' button at the top of the page. - This will move the PQQ into your 'My PQQs' page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) -You can now access any attachments by clicking 'Buyer Attachments' in the 'PQQ Details' box 3. Responding to the tender - Click 'My Response' under 'PQQ Details', you can choose to 'Create Response' or to 'Decline to Respond' (please give a reason if declining) - You can now use the 'Messages' function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification - Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ - There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available) You must then submit your reply using the 'Submit Response' button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the eTendering help desk.