
28 May 2008, 11:27am
Business & Environmental Services Directorate.
Expressions of interest are invited from suitably qualified and experienced contractors who will be invited to tender to provide Data Capture and Digitisation Contract in North Yorkshire.
The proposed service will be for the scanning of existing paper based mapping and documental records. Subsequent cropping and geo-referencing of the scanned mapping and the digitisation of boundary records contained on the scanned imagery in Mastermap.
Further information and a pre-tender questionnaire are available from the County's Supplier and Contract Management System (SCMS) system. Please follow the below link and register, the contract number is NYCC/BES/7390.
Joel Sanders, North Yorkshire County Council, Business and Environmental Services Directorate, County Hall Northallerton, North Yorkshire, DL7 8AH.
The pre-tender questionnaire is available until 16 June 2008 and must be completed on SCMS or returned to the above address by post before Midday 16 June 2008.

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