The NMI awarded a framework for specialist services to enable onsite (in NMI) scanning of historic archival paper-based collections. Some are bound volumes, some are loose-leaf. Some are very old, brittle and delicate. Some are handwritten and some are typed.

The Framework Member will be expected to carry out these activities for the first and any subsequent contracts:

• Curriculum Vitae will be required for all personnel assigned to the framework.

• Completion of risk assessments for the working environment and situation, to ensure the Framework Members personnel, NMI staff, collections and non-collection objects are safe at all times

• Archival collections are to be scanned using a Bookeye 4 V2 Semiautomatic scanner provided by the NMI.

• Each image produced will be saved as part of the NMI digital assets and managed in Portfolio (digital asset management system used by the NMI).

The NMI awarded a framework for specialist services to enable onsite (in NMI) scanning of historic archival paper-based collections. Some are bound volumes, some are loose-leaf. Some are very old, brittle and delicate. Some are handwritten and some are typed.

Photography of three-dimensional object collections is outside of the scope of this Framework as that work is carried out by the NMI Photographic Department.

Very specific standards are to be reached, without dropping below that level and also avoiding scope creep.