# Academic Digitisation & Licensing: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Persia: from Silk Road to Soviet Rule

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES](/buyers/the-national-archives/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: ADAM MATTHEW DIGITAL LIMITED
- Award value: £250,000
- Award date: 9 August 2019
- Published: 1 November 2019
- Contract start: 24 October 2019
- Contract end: 23 October 2029
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: d53147da-5b41-4f23-bb75-b85788268632-323237
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-77b9696f-483f-4ab9-84f9-706a9dab4483

## Description

The purpose of this Procurement Process is for The National Archives \(TNA\) to select a Supplier to digitise and to publish online the Foreign Office records of Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, in a collection provisionally titled: Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan: from the Silk Road to Soviet Rule, 1800-1922\. The contract award will include a commercial licence to publish online digital images and associated metadata, and a requirement to fund and undertake all the necessary activities to make that possible - including conservation, digital image capture, transcription of data to allow for meaningful searches of the records, and online publication\. TNA expects that this contract will comprise a licence to publish the records online for a period of ten years with potential options to renew\. TNA expects that the appointed Supplier will deliver the contract at nil cost to TNA, and will also deliver a royalty return to TNA during the contract period, in consideration for the licence to publish the Collection

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d53147da-5b41-4f23-bb75-b85788268632-323237)