Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-09-04
Buyer: DR
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72310000: Data processing services | 72314000: Data collection and collation services | 72317000: Data storage services | 72319000: Data supply services
Estimated value: 7022660 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Digitization of a large collection of 1/4" audiotapes. The collection consists of 211 200 tapes containing an estimated 78 000-86 000 hours of recordings; mainly published material. The project consists of transporting, digitizing, delivering of digital files and destroying the audiotapes after the digitalization.
Retender of the tender digitization of ¼” audiotapes of 3 March 2020 with updated material of 27 March 2020. Changes have been made to the material. Particular attention is drawn to the following points:
With this EU-Tender DR will digitize a large collection of ¼” audiotapes. The collection consists of 211 200 tapes containing an estimated 78 000-86 000 hours of recordings; mainly published material. The project consists of transporting, digitizing, delivering of digital files and destroying the audiotapes after the digitalization. The material is stored in cardboard boxes in 20-feet containers at Holger Danske Flytteforretning, Vallensbækvej 43, DK-2650 Brøndby, Denmark.
DR’s collection of ¼" audiotapes must be digitized to preserve it as a cultural heritage. Digitization needs to be done without loss of media essence or metadata.
• the tapes are from 1950s to 2006. It is mainly published programs within all genres. However, it also includes unpublished productions, e.g. concert recordings,
• the reels are mostly 10” (app. 80 %) and 7” (app. 20 %). A small amount is 5” or even smaller reels (<5 %),
• each tape is held in a cardboard box. Each box may also hold paper describing the contents of the tape, small booklets, and other audio-formats than a ¼" audiotape,
• tapes are mostly stereo. Older tapes are mono. Small sub-collections may contain 2 or 4 track recordings,
• tapes are mostly filled with content but may also have various length of blank tape after true content,
• overall, the tapes are in good condition and recordings are of broadcast quality done by professional technicians,
• all boxes that are easily identified as other formats than ¼” audiotapes have been removed by DR before packing. But some smaller formats could be stored in the ¼” audiotape boxes and have not been located and removed,
• all tapes are stored in cardboard boxes for transport. Each box contains around 28 tapes all with the barcodes visible for easy scanning. The cardboard boxes are owned by DR. Ownership of the cardboard boxes passes to the Supplier and the boxes should not to be returned to DR,
• cardboard boxes are barcoded and stored in containers. The containers are owned by Holger Danske Flytteforretning.
For not having to perform the extensive testing control more than once, the contract is not suited for division.


Winner: Memnon Archiving Services SA
Award value: 7022660
Number of bids: 5