What the buyer wrote
The Library is recognised as the home of the nation's radio archive. The current radio collection comprises around 250,000 hours. Additionally, via a longstanding arrangement with the BBC the Library also provides the only UK point of research access to the extensive radio collections of the BBC Archives. However, of the estimated 3m hours of radio broadcast in the UK each year from c.700 stations, the Library is capturing a mere 15,000 hours (mostly news-based content). It is estimated that 92% of current UK radio is not being properly preserved, with only 2% being made available for potential research post-transmission. The minimum requirements for a successful pilot will be to deliver …
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- 000727 Digital Radio Archive Management System
- How they are buying
- Advertised, shortlist firstSuppliers applied to be considered, and the buyer picked who went on to bid.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 1 Feb 2018
- Work ends
- 31 Jan 2020
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
The buyer published a contact address on this notice.