MRC Data Support Service - An Invitation to Bid for Tender
Every year, the Medical Research Council (www.mrc.ac.uk) invests around £500 million of public money in research, a primary output of which is data. We want to help researchers make better use of the opportunities that such a diversity and quantity of data provides.
MRC wishes to establish a Data Support Service to underpin wider access & use of biomedical research data. Delivery requirements for the first two years of the Service include:
- an ‘MRC Data Portal’: intuitive web access to information, tools, guidance on data curation, and population-based research datasets
- study-specific solutions for enhancing discovery, access and use of MRC data
These early years will not include establishment of a large-scale data archive or repository.
The bidder will be expected to provide:
- Leadership within the biomedical & health research communities;
- Technical expertise on data curation, informatics & standards development
- Business capabilities: managing a service, delivering solutions & evaluating benefits
We invite responses from individual organisations or consortia to work in partnership with MRC to deliver the Service. There will be a short-listing process involving a pre-qualification stage before full tender. For full details about the tender requirements and applying for the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) please contact Yvonne Kiamtia at Yvonne.kiamtia@ssc.mrc.ac.uk.
The closing date for requesting the PQQ is 26th November 2007. Completed PQQs must be received by 17th December 2007.
