Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Historic Environment Scotland · Non-Departmental Public Body
- Value
- £265,275
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and development services and related consultancy services (CPV 73000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 050619-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 May 2026
- Published29 May 2026Published 8 days after the contract date
Description
The Digitisation Capability Pilot is one of the two core work packages delivered through the N-RICH Prototype, alongside the Digital Research Infrastructure Prototype. Its role is to address the supply-side constraints that currently limit the use of cultural heritage collections in computational and data-driven research. While digitisation activity across the UK GLAM sector has expanded access to collections, it has not consistently produced data that is structured, documented and interoperable enough to support large-scale analysis, AI-enabled methods or cross-collection research. The Pilot responds to this gap by focusing on the creation of computation-ready digital collections data, providing a foundation for subsequent infrastructure development and research use. The objectives of the Digitisation Capability Pilot are to: - Define a shared, open and scalable digitisation standard for priority GLAM collection types, specifying baseline, enhanced and aspirational levels of practice…
About the supplier
Oxford University Innovation Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02199542).