Restore signed a contract with the UK's national broadcaster, the BBC. The contract is to manage the BBC's archive of entertainment related assets, with an expected value of £22 million over ten years. The contract award is the largest in Restore's history.
The BBC's archive consists of approximately 10.2m archived assets made up of a number of distinct collections which currently take up a total of 74,000 linear meterage of storage in temperature controlled vaults. The assets consist of audio, moving images, photographic stills, vinyl, and sheet music collected over the last century. Restore will build a dedicated vault in one of the Group's existing facilities (which will be the size of c.250k equivalent storage boxes) and then throughout 2023 manage the migration of the assets from an existing BBC facility.
In addition to Restore Records Management (part of the Digital and Information Management division) providing the long-term storage, manage and retrieval services, Restore Harrow Green (part of the Secure Lifecycle Services division) will manage the migration project to plan, manage and migrate the collections from the BBC's existing facilities. This combination of services with two of Restore's business units coming together was instrumental in winning the contract with the BBC and demonstrates the Group's ability to offer a unique full service data management solution to its customers.