PROCAT Digital Service Rebuild
Buyer: The National Archives
- Published
- 22 May 2025
- Estimated value
- £500,000
- Place of performance
- UK
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 025018-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-051556
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Description
PROCAT is a bespoke service which was commissioned by The National Archives (TNA) in 1999\2000. It was built to catalogue public records, to provide an end-to-end service for both staff involved in cataloguing records, and for the public searching TNA's online catalogue via our public website. A service (SAR) controlling access based on PRA principles, was added soon afterwards. Although the public catalogue access is now supplied by the Discovery service, PROCAT and SAR are still in use every day for preparing descriptions of newly accessioned paper records and revising descriptions and access to existing TNA paper records. ("Paper" here stands for any records not born-digital). The service is built with components (web pages, search engine, SQL database and batch processes) of that era which have lasted well. However, many elements are now obsolete and are increasingly incompatible with any modern servers used to provide the service. TNA has already commissioned a discovery process to detail the problem areas and outline a route to a transitional architecture which will partly replace those obsolete components. The aim is to provide a stable service prior to complete replacement.…
Official publications
- FTS · 025018-2025 · 22 May 2025
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