70-20800-26-CP352_2026 SOLE SOURCE DETERMINATION POSTED.pdf.PDF

DETERMINATION AND JUSTIFICATION OF SOLE SOURCE

CONTRACT WITH LEXUM

The New Mexico Compilation Commission ("Commission") must enter into a sole source publishing contract with LEXUM INFORMATIQUE JURIDIQUE INC. ("Lexum") for the purpose of providing uninterrupted electronic publishing of the laws of the State of New Mexico, preserving and protecting the State's official copyrighted integrated database, reducing its operational costs and providing all official legal content for the State of New Mexico to its citizens for free.

Contractor: Lexum Informatique Juridique, Inc.

4200 Saint-Laurent, #910 Montreal, Quebec, H2W 2R2 Canada

Contract Amount: From $400,000 -$450,000

Contract Term: Four (4) years

Services To Be Provided:

1. Support and maintain the Commission's site, NMOneSource.com, which includes the following content:

• Constitution of the United States;

• Constitution of New Mexico;

• 1989 – 2021 databases of annual historical Constitution of New Mexico;

• New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties;

• Laws of New Mexico ("Session Laws"), from 1993;

• New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978®, including parallel tables from 1864;

• 1989 – 2026 New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978 databases of annual historical compilations;

• New Mexico Appellate Reports® (Supreme Court of New Mexico and Court

Appeals of New Mexico formal and authenticated court opinions), from 1852;

• Slip opinions of Supreme Court of New Mexico and Court of Appeals of New

Mexico on date of release;

• Non-precedential Supreme Court unpublished decisions and Court of Appeals memorandum opinions, from 2009;

• New Mexico Rules Annotated, including court approved forms, district court rules and New Mexico local federal rules;

• 1989 – 2025 New Mexico Rules Annotated databases of annual historical rule sets;

• Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters, from 1909;

• State Ethics Commission Advisory Opinions, from 2020;

• New Mexico Administrative Code ("NMAC"); and

• Unannotated versions of the statutes and court rules.

2. Provide year-round, unlimited technical support services and a technical support team available on a permanent basis to work collaboratively with Commission staff to maintain and improve services.

3. Provide conversion software supporting images, complex tables, forms, internal links, external links, footnotes, and other formatting elements included in official legal documents.

4. Import and integrate new content into NMOneSource.com, as requested by the Commission.

5. Provide a "demo" environment that allows administrative access to a demo version of NMOneSource.com to be used to test new uploads and features before updated content is added to the live environment.

6. Ensure that all new and updated content for all collection types is updated within one hour.

7. Support bulk content updates for current NMSA and NMRA content.

8. Support the ability for end users to create customized print content.

9. Provide editorial services for the ongoing publishing of Session Laws for both regular and special sessions of the Legislature, within five (5) weeks of the reception of all files.

10. Continue to provide end users of NMOneSource.com with a free, personal legal research workspace, my.NMOneSource.com, powered by Lexbox, that allows them to organize documents of interest according to their own folder structure, keep track of them over time via alerts, and add notes.

WHEREAS, the publication requirements of the State of New Mexico, including maintaining and retaining the state's rights to its database is uniquely understood by Lexum, whose technology was selected by the Commission to optimize self-publishing processes, realize operational savings, and manage the State's official legal content; and

WHEREAS, the former XML and Folio Flat File databases were integrated into a new solution designed and developed by Lexum using their proprietary software Decisia, for content management and delivery of case law material, and Qweri, for delivery and management of legislative material, to be accurate, complete, and current at all times to meet the official legal publisher quality standards and for reliance by the courts, legislature, state agencies, private law firms and the public; and

WHEREAS, the State of New Mexico has invested a substantial amount of state revenues and resources in the development, design and implementation of a free public website that is the only master integrated database of the official legal content of the State;

and

WHEREAS, the direct and indirect costs to the State of New Mexico of converting the official integrated database from the antiquated Folio Views software formerly used by the Commission, to the proprietary modernized software developed by Lexum, has resulted in significant financial savings to the State and the Commission's ability to self-publish and manage all official content internally on behalf of the State; and

WHEREAS, Lexum and Commission staff provided end user training of judges, court and legislative staffs, state agencies, private lawyers, and the public, who have successfully transitioned from the former paid site to the new free public site, are familiar with the modernized environment and have come to rely upon the updated functionality of NMOneSource.com; and

WHEREAS, it is essential that there be continuity in the updating of all content in the official master integrated database and the timely electronic publication of laws published on their effective dates, appellate opinions published on their date of release, and other official content as published in NMOneSource.com.

THE NEW MEXICO COMPILATION COMMISSION, ACTING ON THE RECOMMENDATION

AND ADVICE OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE NEW MEXICO SUPREME

COURT, HEREBY ADOPTS THIS DOCUMENT AS ITS RECORD OF DETERMINATION FOR THE SOLE

SOURCE PUBLISHING CONTRACT WITH LEXUM INFORMATIQUE JURIDIQUE, INC.

ADOPTED BY THE NEW MEXICO COMPILATION COMMISSION this 11th day of

AUGUST, 2026.