Contract notice: Library management system Tender - 31731863

Object of the contract
Library management system
Description: Contract notice: Library management system
Authority Type: Other
Contact Nature: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
Document: Contract notice
Regulation: European Union, with participation by GPA countries
Award criteria: The most economic tender
CPV code: 48161000, 48160000, 48161000, 48160000
CPV Description: Library management system.
Library software package.
E-lending Solution for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
By acquiring and implementing an e-lending solution the KB is seeking to modernise and simplify the back-end of our e-book and audio book services. In the context of these services and this project, e-content eligible for e-lending refers to both e-books and audio books.
Main Site : 's-Gravenhage
By acquiring and implementing an e-lending solution the KB is seeking to modernise and simplify the back-end of our e-book and audio book services. In the context of these services and this project, e-content eligible for e-lending refers to both e-books and audio books.
The new e-lending solution will replace the present e-book and audio book back-end systems. The object is to be able to create and offer a better user experience, possibilities for adding content repositories, simplification of processing and increasing manageability, decreasing costs in general and collaborate with reliable and future-proof suppliers, which would increase durability and development potential. The KB wants to accomplish this by purchasing an off-the-shelf solution.
The following objectives apply to the current tender:
— being able to offer clients a full service on their front-ends (website as well as apps), where "full" is defined as being able to find, borrow and utilise e-content,
— increasing reliability by cleaning up a legacy of solutions and undesired acquisitions that have accumulated within and around systems over the years,
— supporting multiple and various kinds of materials, minimal e-books and audio books. Optional: digital magazines. As a result, support for connecting multiple content suppliers is a pre-condition. Films, music, games and courses fall outside the scope of the assignment;
— ability to connect different extra repositories of e-content (e.g. alternative e-book, audio book or by the KB digitised and to ePub converted eBooks),
— decreasing the time necessary for managing the content and the application, which means a decrease in unnecessary manual tasks, such as processing information when a book has "sold out".
Additional objectives are:
— supplying as much social value as possible for public funding.
See tender guide.
Internet address (URL): http://www.kb.nl