The National Archives and Records Administration awarded a single-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to Colorlab Corporation with a potential value of $1,167,520.00 for the preservation duplication of small gauge films. No set-aside provisions were applied. Between 2020-2025, NARA issued several firm fixed price delivery orders against this contract vehicle valued between $464-$4,999.95 to Colorlab for services including the duplication of film and liquid gate scans, Super...
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded a multiple award blanket purchase agreement to Preservation Technologies, L.P. to provide audiovisual preservation services. Under the terms of the agreement, the awardee will digitize film and tape media held by the National Library of Medicine to support long-term preservation and public access. Two associated task orders were issued. The first, valued at $83,430, involves digitizing 16mm film under...
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) valued at $604,500 to Colorlab Corp, a motion picture film laboratory, to provide motion picture color film processing services for 16mm and 35mm negative and print film stocks. This 3-year contract, awarded in September 2021, supports NARA's ongoing efforts to preserve and manage its extensive archival film holdings. In addition, NARA has issued several delivery orders against...
The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service awarded a multiple-award Federal Supply Schedule contract to Backstage Library Works, Inc., a for-profit, Subchapter S corporation registered as a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued up to $475,000, is effective from May 31, 2022 through May 30, 2027 and provides digitization, preservation, cataloging, and records management services for federal agencies. The contract scope includes digitization...
The National Institutes of Health National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded a multiple award Blanket Purchase Agreement for audiovisual preservation services with a potential value of $300,000. Under this vehicle, the Institute issued a task order against Post Production Services, Inc., doing business as Scene Savers, for the digitization of film assets. The task order was a firm fixed price contract valued at $83,430 to deliver audiovisual preservation and film digitization...
The National Agricultural Library Special Collections awarded a single-award blanket purchase agreement to Preserve South, Inc. for the digital reformatting of motion picture films, video, and audio. The five-year agreement has a potential value of $155,931. Preserve South will perform digitization, cleaning, repair, metadata creation, and archival services at its facility in Calverton, Maryland. Under the agreement, the Department of Agriculture issued a firm-fixed price call order worth...
Preservica Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, was awarded a $500,000 Multiple Award Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (MA-IDIQ) Federal Supply Schedule contract (47QTCA23D006Z) by the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service. This 5-year contract, valid through April 5, 2028, enables Preservica to provide perpetual and term licenses for its Enterprise Private Cloud and Enterprise on Premise digital preservation software, as well as...
The federal contract IDV is a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract with Bonolabs LLC, a small business, under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) for Photographic Equipment (FSS-67). The contract was originally awarded on May 21, 2012 with a current period through May 20, 2027 and a ceiling value of $830,620. Bonolabs provides a range of media conversion and duplication services under this contract, including reformatting motion picture film collections, audiovisual analog duplication, and...
The Department of the Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service awarded a $3.1 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Datasavers of Jacksonville, Inc., a woman-owned small business, for microfilm retrieval, packaging, and shipping services. Under this BPA, Datasavers manages up to 135,000 reels of microfilm to support the agency's efforts to manage historical records and transition to digital formats. Several individual BPA calls have been issued under this IDV to Datasavers,...
This single-award IDV was issued by the National Institutes of Health NITAAC Office of Information Technology Acquisition to provide service charge inventory, digitization, and scanning of documents and other archivist services. With a potential value of $386,251.01, the period of performance for ordering runs through March 1, 2023. Microtechnologies LLC was selected as the prime contractor to fulfill the needs of the Department of Health and Human Services under this contract vehicle. As the...