The purpose of this interinstitutional framework contract is to provide to the participating EU institutions and agencies professional services and supplies for the preservation, digitisation and distribution of their audiovisual productions.

The contract covers technical services and supplies which are necessary for the long-term preservation of the audiovisual productions of the participating institutions and agencies according to professional standards, their digitisation, their inventory and their distribution to interested parties.

— Transfer/duplication onto all existing and future analogue and digital media.

— Remastering and digitising of existing programmes including restoration and simple editing.

— Supply of sundry consumables (labels, covers, boxes for all forms of media, envelopes in various formats and any other consumables and recording media used in day-to-day management of audio and video archives).

— Inventory of audiovisual documents.

— Related services: printing of covers and identification labels, packaging and distribution.

— Printing in various formats using files supplied by the services of the Commission.

— Montage and retouching work.

— Enlarging/framing of pictures.

— Digitising work.

— Supply of sundry consumables (files for storage of photos, reinforced envelopes, cardboard cylinders, ink cartridges, recording media and any other consumables used in day-to-day management of photo archives).

— Inventory of photographic documents.

— Related services: packaging and distribution.