Administer Digital Research Collection and Provide Oral History Support

*** See the Revised PWS and Answers to the Questions. The suspense date for this solicitation has been extended to 10 September 2019.***.

The Office of History (CEHO) maintains a rich collection of documents,
photographs, and oral history interviews that chronicle the history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In the past the majority of the new material accessioned into the office's Research Collection consisted of textual records-primarily documents, transcripts, photographs, and maps-that needed to be integrated into the office's existing collection. Over the last decade the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has undergone a pronounced shift. Now the majority of its records are created and transmitted electronically. Moreover, in a bid to make its historical content available to a wider audience, the office is digitizing significant portions of its holdings. Consequently, CEHO requires the services of a support contractor to help the office maintain and grow its Digital Research Collection (DRC) and to organize and permanently store a wide variety of digital content. In addition, CEHO requires amending its existing standards and procedures for accessioning born-digital content into the DRC.
CEHO also requires the services of a contractor to process, arrange, evaluate, track,
and accessions interviews into its oral history collection. Those interviews include: 85 interviews conducted for the History of Emergency Operations, 15 interviews about USACE's Risk Management Center (RMC), 10 Career and Subject interviews (hereafter Career interviews), approximately 14 interviews about USACE Task Force Mosul Dam (MD), 25 interviews related to Task Force Barrier, and approximately 10 interviews with participants in Task Force Essayons.
***See the attached Combined Synopsis-Solicitation and Performance Work Statement for additional information***.