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Tender: Historic England – SaaS Digital Preservation System for Digital Archive and New Datasets

Released 24 days ago

Closes04 Nov 2026

Likely valueEstimate£50K to £350KInflation adjusted

LocationUnited Kingdom

AgencyHistoric England

SourceFind a Tender

CategoryIT & Software

1 day leftCloses Wed, 4 Nov 2026

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Historic England is seeking a supplier for a full SaaS digital preservation system to care for its existing digital archive content and to provide long-term preservation for datasets being created by Historic England teams that are not currently part of the Digital Archive. The required solution must provide full digital preservation capabilities in line with the OAIS reference model (ISO14721) and include data hosting of the content stored in the Digital Archive in a cyber-secure environment as set out in the procurement technical specification.

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