title: ARCHIVER 
creators: Sara Pitonnet Gaiarin Bob Jones Jamie Shiers João Fernandes
abstract: Do you need to acquire standards-based, cost-effective archiving and preservation services? Are ingest rates, data volume and long-term support important to you? The ARCHIVER project aims to introduce significant improvements in these areas of archiving and digital preservation services, supporting the IT requirements of European scientists developing end-to-end archival and preservation services for data generated in the context of scientific research. With a total procurement budget of 3.4 million euros, the project will use a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) approach to competitively procure R&D services from firms in three stages covering design, prototyping and pilot, over a 3-year period (Jan 2019 - Dec 2021). The resulting services will become part of the catalogue of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative funded by the European Commission (EC). This contribution will showcase the results obtained during the project phases up to iPRES2019, providing an overview of the PCP process for the supply side and how the wider demand side community can benefit from the ARCHIVER results through the ARCHIVER Early Adopters program.