Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-08-13
Buyer: Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics (FOBL) Informatics Section
Country: CH
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72310000: Data processing services | 72312100: Data preparation services | 72312200: Optical character recognition services | 72319000: Data supply services
Submission deadline: 2021-09-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Swiss National Library (NL) is looking for a partner to create metadata from images of German, Italian, French and Romansh-language newspapers from 1798 to 2016. The supplier will be tasked with segmenting to article level the content of e-newspaperarchives.ch in line with the National Library's requirements, in accordance with the METS/ALTO schema. The contents of e-newspaperarchives.ch amount to approx. 3.5 million pages (basic service). The segmentation of approx. 1.5 million pages from current projects will also optionally be put out to tender.
The hard drives containing the segmented batches should be delivered to the following address: Swiss National Library, Hallwylstrasse 15, 3003 Bern.
The Swiss National Library (NL) is looking for a partner to create metadata from images of German, Italian, French and Romansh-language newspapers from 1798 to 2016. The supplier will be tasked with segmenting to article level the content of e-newspaperarchives.ch in line with the National Library's requirements, in accordance with the METS/ALTO schema. The contents of e-newspaperarchives.ch amount to approx. 3.5 million pages (basic service). The segmentation of approx. 1.5 million pages from current projects will also optionally be put out to tender.
OP01: Segmenting the content of current projects – approx. 1.5 million pages. Q3/2022 to Q2/2025 (small batches possible / may be requested).
All of the following proof of suitability must be confirmed or enclosed and met in full and without any reservation or modificationtogether with the tender itself; otherwise, the tender will not be considered.
Extract from the Swiss debt collection register no older than three months at the time it is required by the Purchaser. In the case of bidders based outside Switzerland, an equivalent up-to-date official certificate from the relevant country.
Note: The Contracting Authority will electronically check the extract from the central business names index (www.zefix.ch).
In the case of bidders based outside Switzerland, an extract from the commercial register or an equivalent official certificate from the relevant country.
This evidence of suitability should only be submitted if requested, once the bid has been submitted but before the contract is awarded.
The bidder has acquired sufficient experience from projects that are comparable with this task in terms of
The bidder must demonstrate this experience using two references from projects completed within the last five years (projects concluded after 01.01.2016; the quantitative requirements in points 1 and 2 must be fulfilled for each reference).
References relating to projects implemented by the bidder for the Swiss Confederation will only be accepted if all the reference contacts listed have given their written consent to provide information.
One fully completed reference form (Annex 6) must be submitted for each reference project. The Purchaser reserves the right to contact the specified contact persons. The named contact person must be available (any holiday absences and relevant deputies must be specified).
The bidder has the necessary human resources to fulfil the contract as outlined in the requirements specification.
The bidder has a contact person (single point of contact, SPOC) who is responsible for escalating contractual problems and is able to make decisions.