The National Archives is seeking expressions of interest for the digitisation, licensing and publication of the Home Guard Service Records, both from WWII, 1940-45 and in the 1950s. The project will be to digitise, transcribe and publish online the 4 million individual Home Guard service records previously held by the MoD. The contract award will include a commercial licence to publish the images online, (and associated transcription data produced by the project) and to undertake all the required processes to complete this (including such activities as digital image capture and transcription of data, to allow for meaningful searches of the records' online publication), for which TNA will expect a commercial return.
This will be an income contract delivered at nil cost to The National Archives. The Contract Value figures herein represent the estimated anticipated revenue incoming to the supplier from provision of the services.
This Procurement Process is for The National Archives to identify and select a supplier to transcribe information from the National Farm Survey collection. Transcription of the handwritten information in key data fields will be completed from the digitised images provided. Outputs of the created metadata will be delivered by the supplier in CSV (comma separated values) files that conform to a specified data schema.
Further information is specified in the attached ITT documentation.