- Country: United Kingdom
- Summary: Procat Digital Service Rebuild
- GBT Ref No: 119303621
- Deadline: 09 Jun 2025
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: Government
- Tender Value: Refer Document
- Notice Type: Tender
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- Description:
- PROCAT is a bespoke service which was commissioned by The National Archives (TNA) in 1999\2000. It was built to catalogue public records, to provide an end-to-end service for both staff involved in cataloguing records, and for the public searching TNA's online catalogue via our public website. A service (SAR) controlling access based on PRA principles, was added soon afterwards. Although the public catalogue access is now supplied by the Discovery service, PROCAT and SAR are still in use every day for preparing descriptions of newly accessioned paper records and revising descriptions and access to existing TNA paper records. ("Paper" here stands for any records not born-digital). The service is built with components (web pages, search engine, SQL database and batch processes) of that era which have lasted well. However, many elements are now obsolete and are increasingly incompatible with any modern servers used to provide the service. There are significant risks due to this technology: That the service may fail catastrophically (=not recoverable) at any time. Continued operations pose a cyber security risk due to use of insecure browser technology. TNA has already commissioned a discovery process to detail the problem areas and outline a route to a transitional architecture which will partly replace those obsolete and cyber risk components. The aim is to provide a stable service prior to complete replacement. This avoids both the risks inherent in a "big bang" complete repl...
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CLICK HERE TO LOGINProcat Digital Service Rebuild - Uk Tender
The THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, a Government sector organization in United Kingdom, has announced a new tender for Procat Digital Service Rebuild. This tender is published on UkTender under GBT Ref No: 119303621 and is categorized as a Tender. Interested and eligible suppliers are invited to participate by reviewing the tender documents and submitting their bids before the deadline on 2025-06-09.
The estimated tender value is Refer Document, and full details, including technical specifications and submission requirements, are provided in the official tender documents. Ensure all submissions meet the criteria outlined to be considered for evaluation.
