Framework for the Digital Preservation Services for the University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham has a requirement for procurement of a cloud-based platform for managing the long-term preservation of digital assets, examples of these digital assets include theses, research data, webpages, emails, audio-visual and text documents (amongst many others).

The system will initially be used to preserve library service records, however, the system we procure must be scalable to preserve digital outputs generated across the university.

A successful procurement will result in a digital preservation system that is integrated with SharePoint, Calm and library repository systems (ePrints and Pure).

• System will preserve born digital and digitised documents created in non-digital form and subsequently converted to digital form.
• Initial system specific training on the digital preservation system delivered by the vendor staff to all relevant library staff
• Further system specific training on the digital preservation system in the event of additional features being released delivered by vendor staff to all relevant library staff
• The technical solution will initially manage Library Services digital assets but will be scalable to facilitate the growth and expansion of the emerging and developing needs of the wider University.
• It is anticipated that the university will not exceed 30Tb of storage during the period of the contract.