BlueLight Commercial Media Digitisation Market Engagement Event

Concepts

• birmingham
• information technology
• bluelight commercial media digitisation market engagement event
• media digitisation
• bluelight commercial
• media
• commercial
• bluelight
• digitisation
• useful information

Location

Birmingham

Description

BlueLight Commercial would like to engage with the market in respect of Media Digitisation to gather useful information to gain a better understanding of solutions available.

CPV Codes

• 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

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Other Information

BlueLight Commercial are issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) as an invitation to our Market Engagement Event to gather information and to gain a better understanding of the capacity of the market for Media Digitisation. Policing is defining Media Digitisation as the conversion of analogue recordings into digital formats. BlueLight Commercial are looking for solutions with the ability to digitise analogue audio and visual media, provide storage and a platform to search for media using multiple search fields and facilitate playback. The focus at present is on digitisation VHS, DVD’s and CD’s, however, we are interested to understand the capabilities around other media types too, e.g. Mini-Disc, USB, Cassette Audio Tapes and Microfiche. BlueLight Commercial would like to invite you to register your interest in attending an individual engagement session. During the session you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate your solution and expand on pre-requisite areas around scalability, hosting, integrations, licensing models, solution roadmap and ROM (rough order of magnitude) costs. The session will also include some of our colleagues from policing. The intention is to hold the session w/c 23rd September 2024. A date will be allocated following receipt of expression of interest. The event will be limited to 3 people from each organisation.If you would like to register your interest, please complete the survey at https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MediaDigitisationSept24/ by Wednesday 18th September 2024 5pm. If you have any questions, please contact BlueLight Commercial ICT Team at nationalict@bluelight.police.uk BlueLight Commercial are exploring future commercial options including a national framework for Media Digitisation which could be published in November/December 2024 under the new Procurement Act 2023. BlueLight Commercial encourage suppliers to get ready to operate under the new Procurement Act, please see our webpage which contains several useful resources. https://bluelightcommercial.police.uk/suppliers/procurement-act-2023/ It is important to note that this PIN is not a call for competition and as such potential providers will need to express interest in any future tender opportunity once a contract notice is published in Find a Tender Service (FTS). This PIN is not a pre-qualification questionnaire and is not part of any pre-qualification or selection process and is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise only to help inform a subsequent procurement exercise.