The contract will advance and expand the deployment of the common European data space for cultural heritage, implementing the related topic 'Data Space for Cultural Heritage (deployment)' of the DEP WP 2025-2027. It will continue the work carried out under the current contract 'Deployment of a common European data space for cultural heritage' (LC-01901432).
See the official notice for the place of performance.
Tenderers must prove that they have the legal capacity to perform the contract and the regulatory capacity to pursue the professional activity necessary to carry out the work subject to this call for tenders. Tenderers can be natural or legal persons. Tenderers are not obliged to take a specific legal form in order to submit their tenders. Where tenderers submit a tender through an entity, which lacks legal personality (e.g., a branch), the compliance with the exclusion criteria, selection criteria, the rules on access to procurement as well as the absence of restrictive measures shall be assessed at the level of the tenderers.
Tenderers must comply with the following selection criteria in order to prove that they have the necessary economic and financial capacity to perform the contract.
The tenderer must prove experience in all of the following fields: - Project management and coordination; - Data management, search, usability, evidence-based web development; - Development, maintenance and operation of cultural heritage data infrastructures; - Aggregation and normalisation of data from different sources; - Legal, with particular reference to EU legislation on open data directive, copyright directive, data protection regulation, licencing of digital cultural heritage content, including access to a core network of experts on cultural heritage across the EU; - High-quality editorial services in at least English and two other EU official languages; - Capacity building and training.
The team delivering the service should include, as a minimum, the following profiles: · Project Manager leader, and backup; · Senior software developers; · Software developers; · Web developers; · Usability experts; · Experts in web operations and a backup; · Data scientists/ curators with experience in data conversion, mapping, linked data; · Communications experts covering several EU official languages; · Legal consultant with experience in intellectual property rights, licensing of digital content and data protection, plus a backup.
Involved entities must not be subject to professional conflicting interests which may negatively affect the contract performance. Where the contracting authority has established such conflicting interests, it may conclude that the tenderer or an involved entity does not possess the required professional capacity to perform the contract to an appropriate quality standard.
Published 8 May 2026 · rebuilt nightly from the official notice.