FBO_Version_of_JOFOC.pdf

SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION

Unified Repository Technical Support

1. Describe the requirement, as well as the total estimated dollar value. Please note that the requirement is the minimum acceptable specification or capability, and is not necessarily the best in the industry.

This procurement will provide contractor support for the debugging, configuration and enhancement of the Islandora/Fedora Commons repository software stack, for the National Agricultural Library. This includes administering and coding Java and Drupal/PHP applications using the Fedora Commons repository platform, Solr enterprise search server, Drupal content management system, NALdora module, Trippi triplestore interface, BlazeGraph triplestore and other technologies that makeup NAL’s Islandora stack.

2. Describe why the proposed vendor is the only vendor from which the requirement can be obtained.

Examples of acceptable justifications include but are not limited to: sole manufacturer and seller, adherence to warranty provisions, urgency, etc. If other vendors can provide similar products or services, describe why they cannot meet our particular requirement.

Islandora is open source software created by the University of Prince Edward Island Library to directly support a variety of library and electronic resource management activities there. Discovery Garden Inc. is a company that was spun off by the Library and is operated by the people who originally created Islandora.

Discovery Garden Inc. is the first and only full-featured Islandora/Fedora/Drupal services company. There is no other vendor developing metadata management systems with Islandora.

Over the last four years, Discovery Garden Inc. worked with NAL to create Drupal modules and other components to enhance Islandora for NAL’s workflow and production of AGRICOLA. They have also added new components to the Islandora software stack to increase the reliability and capability of Fedora

Commons repositories, such as the Trippi interface for the use of the BlazeGraph triplestore. They have unique understanding of these enhancements to Fedora Commons and NAL custom modules.

2. Describe why the proposed vendor is the only vendor from which the requirement can be obtained. Examples of acceptable justifications include but are not limited to: sole manufacturer and seller, adherence to warranty provisions, urgency, etc. If o...