Web Archiving Services
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SUMMARY
KEY REQUIREMENTS
BUDGET
VerifiedCONTRACT DURATION
TIMELINE
Request for Tenders issued: August 14th, 2026
Deadline for requesting additional information: September 14th, 2026
Tender Deadline: September 21st, 2026
Public opening date: September 21st, 2026
QUESTION DEADLINE
CONTACTS
Primary procurement contact — name, title, email, and phone
Additional decision-makers and their departments
Issuing Agency
National Library Of Ireland
DESCRIPTION
The contracting organization is seeking a vendor to provide comprehensive web archiving services. The existing web archive includes more than 140 publicly available thematic and event-based curated collections, comprising over 3,500 websites or seed URLs, many of which have been captured multiple times.
The services must include a crawl management tool or process for independently curating, configuring, and running ad hoc crawls. Staff must be able to monitor crawl progress in near real time, identify failed crawls where a significant portion of a website was not captured, receive reports for failed crawls, and add or edit metadata for existing and future seed URLs and collections.
The vendor must provide a standalone public access portal containing all previously archived content, associated metadata, and content archived during the contract. Required capabilities also include a URL captures API supporting wildcard queries across all collections, including historical ARC and WARC files, as well as a full-text search results API for integration with third-party websites. Preservation services must include hosting, storage, security, periodic fixity checks of preserved web archive data, and reporting of any fixity violations. The web archive portal must be available through a designated subdomain.
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Frequently asked questions
- When is the submission deadline?
- Submissions are due September 21, 2026. Questions must be submitted by September 14, 2026.
- What is the budget for this RFP?
- The published budget is $325,000.
- Who issued this RFP?
- It was issued by National Library Of Ireland. The work is located in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- Who is a good fit for this opportunity?
- Web archiving and digital preservation service provider
- Experience managing large-scale crawls, seed URLs, ARC/WARC collections, and metadata
- Expertise developing public archive portals and search or capture-history APIs
- Strong hosting, storage, cybersecurity, and data integrity capabilities
- Experience performing fixity checks and reporting preservation violations
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