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 $19,679.90 to Preserve South for digitizing materials from the National Agricultural Library's Smokey Bear collection. This supports the library's goal of preserving and providing access to its historical collections. The call order work will be performed in Calverton, Maryland through September 2024.
The original solicitation sought these digitization services to reformat 95 films in the library's collections, including 35mm, 16mm, and audio-visual materials. The blanket purchase agreement and initial call order aim to ensure the long-term preservation of and access to the National Agricultural Library's important historical collections through digitization by this woman-owned small business contractor.
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