From the CTS application:
Please provide a list of Outsource Partners that your organization works with, describing the nature of the relationship (organizational, contractual, etc.), and whether the Partner has undertaken any trustworthy repository assessment.
Successful applicants have listed:
DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) is the Netherlands Institute for permanent access to digital research resources. DANS has been managing the DataverseNL network since 2014. DataverseNL is a network of data repositories, which uses software developed by Harvard University. Tilburg University, as one of the participating institutes, is responsible for managing the deposited data in the Tilburg University Dataverse.
Agreements:
DANS and Tilburg University have signed three agreements:
These documents are available upon request.
In relation to the SWORD interface to transfer data from DataverseNL to certified long-term storage (longer than ten years) in EASY, a Front Office / Back Office service agreement will be signed between DANS and Tilburg University concerning the use of EASY.
Amazon Web Services (servers and storage)
California Digital Library: DOI minting (likely soon to change to Datacite)
UiT The Arctic University of Norway (owner of DataverseNO) has an agreement [1] with BIBSYS as the national (Norwegian) DataCite DOI allocator agency, in order to make use of the DOI service from DataCite to assign persistent identifier to datasets and files in DataverseNO.
References:
[1] Agreement of cooperation for the provision of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and sharing research – confidential document submitted with file name "Agreement_BIBSYS_DataCite.pdf" as part of the application submission.