Environmental & Sustainability Framework Supplier
Deadline to apply is 02 December at noon.
Environmental & Sustainability Framework Supplier (Public Contracts Scotland Reference Number: NOV542641)
Towards a National Collection is tendering for a Environmental & Sustainability Framework supplier for the N-RICH Prototype project, a two-year initiative delivered in collaboration between the Towards a National Collection programme and AHRC, funded by UKRI.
The N-RICH Prototype will deliver targeted early-stage activities to reduce future investment risks. It will test the key elements and examine the scope, costs, risks, impacts and benefits of a future digital research infrastructure for cultural heritage in the UK. Core activities will include a Digitisation Capability Pilot, a Prototype infrastructure, and three cross-cutting frameworks on environment & sustainability, ethics, and cybersecurity.
We seek a supplier to deliver an Environmental & Sustainability Framework to ensure that the digital-collections infrastructure developed through N-RICH can scale responsibly within environmental and financial limits.
The supplier’s work will:
- Establish a carbon and cost baseline for digitisation, storage, and compute across representative pilot institutions.
- Prototype tiered storage and preservation models (hot/warm/cold) and quantify their environmental and financial trade-offs.
- Define “good-enough” digitisation and preservation standards to avoid over-specification and duplication.
- Create a carbon-transparency model that links service cost with emissions data.
- Recommend benchmarks, governance levers, and reporting methods for sustainable digital infrastructure design.
To access detailed information about this tender opportunity, please first register for free on the Public Contracts Scotland portal and then use the Open Tender link provided here.
