# National Museums Liverpool High-Performance Tabletop Copy System-Digitise Archives & Herbarium Sheets

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [National Museums Liverpool](/buyers/national-museums-liverpool/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Covergold Ltd
- Award value: £17,415
- Award date: 21 January 2021
- Published: 2 February 2021
- Contract start: 21 January 2021
- Contract end: 5 March 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 2c14f590-aea3-49bc-a0bd-979e21d6cb74-410062
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d41e45c6-d938-4a2d-aaf6-dbf15fa556de

## Description

Supply of a High-Performance Tabletop Copying System to Digitise Collection Archives and Herbarium Sheets A compact, mobile, fast, flexible, ergonomic and easy to use - high performance table-top copying system is required to image collection archives and herbarium sheets up to A2 size\. A high performance, efficient, user-friendly, A2 tabletop copying system is required to digitise World Museum's diverse collection archives and herbarium sheets\. In particular: • Individual and bound botanical prints and drawings, totalling ca\. 3,500 illustrations, dating back to the seventeenth century\. • Our undocumented but very extensive natural science collection related archives\. These include irreplaceable registers and stock books, scientific drawings, catalogues, field note- books, diaries, photographs, letters and other unique documentation\. Many of which are of high scientific, historic, aesthetic and wider cultural value\. • 370,000\+ individual herbarium sheets\* \(two at a time\) with associated data, which are the major component of our internationally important Botany collection \* Dried pressed plants mounted on paper typically A3 in size\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2c14f590-aea3-49bc-a0bd-979e21d6cb74-410062)