The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will submit about 3 000 shelf meters of archive material from about 100 foreign service missions to the National Archives of Norway. The archive material includes documents from the early 1900s to the present. The Ministry needs several types of services in the field of arrangement, conservation assessment and preparation of the archive material in connection with the submission to the National Archives.

The Ministry estimate that 90 % of the total material can be media converted (scanned).

The procurement comprises two contracts, contract 1 and contract 2. The scope of the archive material is approximately 1 500 shelf meters for each of the contracts.

Any growth of the Ministrys archive material in Oslo can be arranged and submitted within the contracts.

Contract 1: includes arrangement and delivery without need for media conversion (thus delivery of paper material to the National Archives) and arrangement and delivery with need for media conversion. All archives from foreign missions with DocuLive are included in contract 1, for this archive material there is a need for extraction.

Contract 2: includes arrangement and delivery without need for media conversion (thus delivery of paper material to the National Archives) and arrangement and delivery with need for media conversion.