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Multi-Client Contractor Licence

Central and local government customers can supply contractors working on their behalf with copies of the Ordnance Survey Data they hold.  This is permitted under the terms of the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) and the One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA).

Contractors only have the right to hold and use data for the duration of the specific contract they have been employed by the licensee to deliver.  Each licensee has traditionally supplied their contractor with Ordnance Survey Data separately.  The contractor then has to manage each set of data separately and use it solely to deliver the contract for which it was supplied. 

This can be very inefficient for the contractor, especially where the company is managing a number of contracts over a number of different divisions or different offices, each with separate holdings and versions of Ordnance Survey data. It is difficult and expensive to maintain an integrated approach to data management in such circumstances.

The MCCL provides direct data supply and maintenance from Ordnance Survey to qualifying contractors.  It removes the requirement for separate management of multiple data supplies of differing currency from different licensees.

To find out more, please contact your Account Manager, if you have one, or our Customer Service Centre, quoting 'Multi-Client Contractor Licence'.

Further information about the MCCL

Guidance note

If your company is considering applying for this licence, please read our guidance note first.

Licence documents

Example of the licence

We ask applicants to provide short details of five contracts they are currently servicing for government and local authority clients as a qualification for the licence.  The type of detail we request is shown in Schedule 1 of the licence.

Data request form for this licence

Download and use this form for any requests after the initial request made on signing the licence

Permitted subcontractor licence

You can download and use this document if you wish to appoint and use a subcontractor to work on contracts with you,

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For general enquiries, complaints, feedback or suggestions, email: customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk or call us on 08456 05 05 05