Annual Procurement Plan

Strategic Procurement Outlook: The National Library of Australia is a major centre for scholarship and research. We build, care for and provide access to a national collection of material in many forms.  The Library is not a prescribed Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 body for purpose of the Commonwealth Procurement Rules but has chosen to comply with the principles and processes wherever appropriate.

The Financial Year 2012-13 provides procurement opportunities in a number of different collection and facilities management areas.

The procurements listed in this forecast are anticipated at the time of creation of the Plan (June 2012).  There is however no guarantee that all purchases will proceed; or that they will proceed at the time planned; or of the actual manner of approach to the market place.

2012/13 Annual Procurement Plan
ReferenceDescriptionEstimated date of approach to the market
1Replacement of microfilm readers for Reading Rooms – expected to be replaced by March 2013Oct 2012
2Binding Services: establish a panel of suitable suppliers to bind a selection of serial volumes (journals and magazines) and the rebinding of damaged monographs (books)Feb 2013
3Book moves: relocation of Library collection material: establish a panel of suitable suppliers to relocate Library collection material. From time to time collection material is relocated within a site (either within the same floor or between floors) or transferred between sites in the ACTFeb 2013
4Transcription services (Oral History transcripts)Feb 2013
5Request for Application for Inclusion on a Multi-Use List for the provision of electronic resources to Australian libraries (ERA)Feb 2013
6Microfilm scanning equipmentFeb 2013
7Preservation and duplication of audio materialsFeb 2013
8Construction of a new reading room and refurbishment of office accommodationJune 2013
9Content conversion (digitisation) services and content analysis and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) services (joint release of two separate tenders)Oct 2013
10Specialised Scanners - DAP scanners (planned for 2013-14)April 2014
11Specialised Scanners - Document Supply scanners; maps scanner (planned for 2014-15)June 2014
12Replace/upgrade Quadriga software programs (planned for 2014-15)July 2015

NB: All open approaches to the market are advertised via AusTender.  Documentation is then available electronically from this Library website.