Single Source Provider to Overdrive for digital library access
Closed State & local contract opportunity Posted
- Solicitation number
- SS-14201
- State
- Florida
- Responses due
Opportunity facts
- Jurisdiction
- UNSPSC codes
- Point of contact
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- Kim Whitwam whitwamk@fsdbk12.org (904) 827-2356
Opportunity details come from vendor.myfloridamarketplace.com. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) is seeking a single-source procurement for a yearly subscription to OverDrive's Sora Digital Library for fiscal year 2025-2026, specifically for digital library access services. The procurement is located in St. Johns County, Florida, with a posted date of October 24, 2025, and a due date of November 17, 2025. The contract seeks a comprehensive digital library solution that provides students with access to audiobooks, eBooks, digital textbooks, and other digital content through a customized website platform. Key deliverables include a digital library system with features such as instant access to digital materials, integration with school library authentication systems, a student reading app (Sora), and the ability to upload locally-produced digital content. The procurement requires a vendor capable of providing a unique digital library platform with browser-based reading and listening capabilities, Kindle format compatibility, and support for various digital content formats. Vendors interested in challenging the single-source designation are invited to contact Kim Whitwam during the fifteen-business-day advertising period to demonstrate comparable capabilities.
The procurement appears to be unrestricted in terms of set-aside designations or enterprise classifications, with OverDrive identified as the sole-source provider based on their unique platform capabilities. The current estimated contract value is not-to-exceed $5,000.00 for the fiscal year, representing a relatively modest investment in digital library services. The existing technology infrastructure requires integration with school library information systems and support for multiple digital reading platforms, including browser-based and app-based access. OverDrive is positioned as the exclusive vendor due to their specialized features, including a customized website service, top-rated student reading app, local content portal, and compatibility with various device formats. The procurement suggests a direct acquisition approach with no competitive bidding process, emphasizing OverDrive's distinctive technological capabilities that purportedly cannot be replicated by alternative vendors.
Opportunity text
Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) is in need of purchasing a yearly subscription from OverDrive, Inc. for the Sora Digital Library for FY 2025-2026.
Estimated Dollar Amount Not-to-Exceed: $5,000.00. Intended source:
Overdrive, Inc.
1 OverDrive Way
Cleveland, OH 44125
Justification for single source acquisition:
OverDrive provides a series of services and digital content materials that enable schools and districts to lend popular audiobooks, eBooks, digital textbooks, and other digital content via the school's library website.
Uniquely available only from OverDrive as a sole source provider, we offer a system that combines:
- A customized website service for download, instant access and streaming digital materials integrated with the school library's ILS system for real-time student authentication
- OverDrive's top-rated free app (Sora) for school users offers students their digital library anytime, anywhere with one-tap reading, assignments, notes and highlights, badges, and reading stats
- OverDrive's student reading app, Sora,allows school users access to age-appropriate titles from their local library's OverDrive hosted collection via OverDrive's Public Library Connect (PLC).
- OverDrive uniquelyoffers a Local Content portal for schools, providing the ability to upload locally- produced and self-published digital content into the platform for lending to their students
- OverDrive is the only digital library vendor selling high quality fixed format and read-along ePUB3 content from top trade houses
- OverDrive platform features that provide instant access to eBook and audio formats, including browser- based reading withOverDrive Read, and browser-based listening with OverDrive Listen,all allowing for ease of use with no software installation or device activation required
- OverDrive is the only digital library lending provider that offers downloads in the Kindle format and compatibility with all generations of the Amazon Kindle, the mostpopular and widely used eReading device on the market
- OverDrive's proprietary browser-based formats are able cache the content for offline usage and does not require active internet connection to read/listen to the digital content
- OverDrive APIs, available via the OverDrive Developer Portal, allow for integration of digital content with library discovery tools
- Control for the library to set digital book lending policies and manage access and usage of materials
- Download eBooks capable of operating on portable devices such as iPads, Chromebooks, as wellas all generations of Amazon Kindle (exclusive to OverDrive)
- Download audiobooks with accessibility features for the blind and visually impaired
- OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks compatible with MAC/OS, iPods and other Apple devices
As a result of the combination of the above referenced items, as well as OverDrive, Inc.'s continued innovation, library and school market leadership, proven success and secret processes, OverDrive, Inc. is the sole vendor to offer these unique services and sought after materials.
No other source exists for OverDrive, Inc., Sora digital library subscription service.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| 2-Overdrive SS-26-055.docx | DOCX document |
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