Notice Information
Notice Title
Data Transcription Services for Historical Records
Notice Description
The University of Edinburgh requires a supplier to manually transcribe between 18.7 and 25.2 million hand written Scottish vital events records i.e. births, marriages and deaths, since 1856. This has an estimated character count of 3.3 billion characters. Scanned images of the records will be made available to the successful supplier via a web interface. This interface will also provide a pre-existing database into which the transcribed data will be manually inputted by the successful bidder. This requirement is not divided into Lots as this would entail disproportionate duplication of supplier set up costs.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The University of Edinburgh has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to create a multidisciplinary research database from historical vital events records. This Digitising Scotland project is looking for a supplier to manually transcribe between 18.7 and 25.2 million hand written Scottish vital events records i.e. births, marriages and deaths, since 1856. This has an estimated character count of 3.3 billion characters. Scanned images of the records will be made available to the successful supplier via a web interface. This interface will also provide a pre-existing database into which the transcribed data will be manually inputted by the successful bidder. Any supplier wishing to bid must be able to transcribe a minimum of 18.7 million records within the Contract Budget and Timescales. Project set-up and transcription must be completed within 35 months from Contract start Manual transcription services will be required. OCR technology will NOT be suitable for this work As the data is sensitive all transcribers must be direct employees of any successful bidder, no subcontracting allowed.. Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if there are any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Options: If further funding is acquired, the inclusion of transcription of records from 1855 may also be included in the scope of this Contract.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000449371
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR275246
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
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- CPV Codes
72300000 - Data services
72310000 - Data-processing services
72311100 - Data conversion services
72312000 - Data entry services
72312100 - Data preparation services
72313000 - Data capture services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 28 Feb 20178 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 21 Feb 20179 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- jen.paterson@ed.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1316514575
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EDINBURGH
- Postcode
- EH1 1HT
- Post Town
- Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM1 East Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM13 City of Edinburgh
- Delivery Location
- UKM25 Edinburgh, City of
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- Local Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Electoral Ward
- City Centre
- Westminster Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR275246
Data Transcription Services for Historical Records - The University of Edinburgh requires a supplier to manually transcribe between 18.7 and 25.2 million hand written Scottish vital events records i.e. births, marriages and deaths, since 1856. This has an estimated character count of 3.3 billion characters. Scanned images of the records will be made available to the successful supplier via a web interface. This interface will also provide a pre-existing database into which the transcribed data will be manually inputted by the successful bidder. This requirement is not divided into Lots as this would entail disproportionate duplication of supplier set up costs.
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