US Army Heritage and Education Center Digitization

This pre-solicitation notice seeks digitization services for the United States Army Heritage and Education Center's physical archival collections. The Center is seeking a contractor to provide all necessary personnel, equipment, facilities and materials to digitize approximately 12,000 linear feet of archival collections comprising photographs, manuscripts and other documents. The contractor must have a Top Secret facility clearance and will sort materials to identify controlled unclassified and classified content before performing minimal processing, metadata capture, and scanning all items at 400 PPI in TIFF and OCRed PDF formats for delivery to government cloud storage. The performance period is one year with an anticipated output of 450,000 unique digitized images. The solicitation number for this opportunity is W91QF024Q2001.

This requirement has been set aside for total small business concerns. The primary NAICS codes are 519210 and 561110 for digital publishing and facilities support services respectively. The base period of performance is from 27 March 2024 to 26 March 2025, with four one-year option periods extending through 26 March 2029. Sources sought responses are due by 21 December 2023 to help the agency develop acquisition strategies and solicit competitive proposals.