Procurements

The TPB procurements are usually made in collaboration with The National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools , and in consultation with VHS Upphandling.

Nordic DTBook procurement – 2010

TPB has, in co-operation with Celia in Finland, NLB in Norway, Nota in Denmark and SPSM in Sweden, procured DTBook production services.

Services procured are:

• DTBook production based on the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 specification for the markup of text and image content, and production specific guidelines
• Optional services:
  • Provision of markup and ASCIIMath notation of mathematical formulae
  • Provision of markup for exercise, answer and inline language content in school texts
  • Provision of text content in images
  • Prioritized character replication rate
  • Prioritized turnaround time of three (3) days
• Image and table descriptions in English

TPB have contracted VHS Upphandling as their procurement consultant.

The journal number for this procurement is: 15-1822/09.

Contract award announcement

Decision regarding contract award has been taken on August the 20th, 2010. The procurement PM can be downloaded here (as a closed pdf) or alternatively as a Word file.

Handling officer at TPB is:
Richard Stones
richard.stones@tpb.se
08-580 02 778

Previous procurements

Textview production

Publication date was November 4, 2009, and tender deadline was September 15, 2009.

Image descriptions

Publication date was August 24, 2009, and tender deadline October 12, 2009

Tactile image books

Publication date was August 25, 2009, and tender deadline October 16, 2009

Braille production

Publication date was September 1, 2009, and tender deadline October 19, 2009

Talking books productions

Publication date was August 22, 2008, and tender deadline was October 15, 2008.