# Pan-Archival Catalogue Delivery

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES](/buyers/the-national-archives/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [MERCATOR IT SOLUTIONS LIMITED](/suppliers/mercator-it-solutions/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £837,900
- Tender value: £837,900
- Award date: 25 October 2021
- Published: 24 May 2023
- Contract start: 17 November 2021
- Contract end: 16 November 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 211b6a4f-0218-414c-bba2-30adf4d40750-647681
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-4120907f-27b4-40f2-8d5b-9ddec3530c4c

## Description

Develop a pan-archival catalogue, bringing together record descriptions from multiple catalogues into a single new system\. Develop an Extract, Transform, Load process to migrate The National Archives' catalogue data from multiple relational database \(SQL Server\) and RDF databases to a cloud based native RDF database \(AWS Neptune\)\. Develop API\(s\) functionality to enable search, select, add, export, edit, import and delete catalogue data Develop search for use by expert users \(using SPARQL in combination with Elasticsearch\) GCloud service id 504202483778440

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/211b6a4f-0218-414c-bba2-30adf4d40750-647681)