Unified Repository

THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. This notice is for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. This procurement will be processed pursuant to FAR part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. No solicitation will be issued.
All responsible sources who believe they can provide the services listed may submit, in writing to the identified point of contact, a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. Information received will be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government. Responses are to be received within 10 days of this notice. No telephone calls are being accepted.

The United States Department Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL) intends to negotiate and award on a Sole Source basis. Contract type will be a Firm Fixed Price for a period of one year. This will be awarded to Discovery Garden Inc. The primary purpose of this acquisition is to enhance the functionality of the Unified Repository as NAL's production platform for its metadata and digital products. NAL requires the contractor's support in the enhancement, debugging, and configuration of NAL's Islandora/Fedora Commons repository software stack. NAICS Code is 541512. Period of performance is estimated to be October 15, 2018 - October 14, 2019.

Award is in accordance with 41 U.S.C 3304(a)(1), and FAR 6.302(a)(2)(ii).
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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.

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