Ithaka Harbors Inc.

Ithaka Harbors Inc., a non-profit organization registered in SAM.gov since February 2002, serves as a premier digital library service provider to federal agencies through its JSTOR division. The organization specializes in delivering comprehensive academic content, scholarly resources, digital archives, and e-book collections to support research, policy analysis, education, and training activities across multiple government departments and agencies. Operating from its headquarters at 165 Liberty Street in New York, Ithaka Harbors Inc. has established itself as a critical information resource vendor with a significant federal contracting footprint, providing proprietary digital content through both competitive and sole-source procurements.

Ithaka Harbors Inc. has received numerous federal contract awards spanning subscription renewals, database access, and digital content delivery services. The organization's contract portfolio includes firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders ranging from approximately $10,000 to $232,000 in individual contract values, with several multi-year renewal arrangements extending through 2029 or beyond. Primary funding agencies awarding contracts to Ithaka Harbors include the Maritime Administration (with contracts for JSTOR EBA E-Books, Essentials Journals Collections, and merchant marine academy library subscriptions), the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (for Evidence-Based Acquisition eBooks and online database renewals), the Air Education and Training Command (for annual JSTOR access fees and Arts and Sciences Backfiles collections), the Naval Education and Training Command (for JSTOR Essential Collections renewals and Security Studies e-books), the Department of State Bureau of Administration (for JSTOR database subscriptions and delivery orders), the Securities and Exchange Commission (for Business Collections subscriptions), the Army War College (for perpetual JSTOR library access), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (for JSTOR online journal access), the Federal Communications Commission (for demand-driven e-books and online journal subscriptions), the National Park Service (for JSTOR Arts & Sciences digital content), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (for journal renewal subscriptions), the National Library of Medicine (for SAAS PORTICO e-journals), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (for JSTOR journal collections), and the Department of Treasury (for JSTOR digital library services). None of these contract awards utilized set-aside designations, reflecting the sole-source or proprietary nature of JSTOR's collections. The contracts consistently provide access to JSTOR's extensive digital libraries, including scholarly journals, archival collections, e-book materials, Arts & Sciences backfiles, Security Studies collections, and primary source materials to support institutional research and educational missions across federal agencies.

Through federal grant awards, Ithaka Harbors Inc., operating through its research arm Ithaka S+R, has pursued mission-driven initiatives focused on scholarly communication infrastructure, digital preservation, and equitable access to information and legal resources. The organization received a $112,441 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities (awarded December 15, 2024) to develop understanding for establishing regional hubs for AI implementation in research and research administration at emerging research institutions, with collaborative work involving Montclair State University and Chapman University. Additionally, Ithaka Harbors received a $303,386 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (awarded August 1, 2024) to examine the national landscape of legal information access for incarcerated individuals and evaluate service models used by Departments of Corrections. The organization also received a $74,376 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (awarded March 1, 2023) in partnership with the Justice Arts Coalition to understand challenges faced by community organizations in preserving materials created by incarcerated people. Prior grant awards include a $50,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (awarded August 1, 2022) to explore cross-sectional library collaboration for serving system-impacted patrons, and a Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (awarded April 1, 2021) focused on leveraging data communities to advance open science. More recently, Ithaka Harbors received funding from the National Science Foundation (awarded February 1, 2025) for a conference convening stakeholders in the open-source software ecosystem to develop practical guidance for sustaining open-source software across the research enterprise. Sub-grant awards indicate Ithaka S+R has collaborated with The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (award date December 9, 2024) on a project examining workplace barriers and cultural assets for library and information science first-generation professionals, and with the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (award date December 21, 2022) for work involving case studies, surveys, and workshops related to higher education initiatives.

Ithaka Harbors Inc. holds a significant single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Library of Congress through the FEDLINK (Federal Library and Information Network) program, valued at $50,000,000 and effective from December 23, 2025, through December 31, 2026. This IDV provides commercial off-the-shelf electronic information resources and related services to federal entities across the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, with primary deliverables including electronic resources and databases, document delivery services, associated publications, and specialized access platforms and product integration services. The contract operates under a firm fixed-price model with volume discounts available at specified sales thresholds, structured to enable authorized federal agencies and independent agencies to place orders through delivery orders against this indefinite quantity vehicle. The underlying solicitation, posted on April 26, 2024, with responses due May 28, 2024, was conducted competitively without set-aside provisions and established a contract structure with a one-year base period and three one-year option periods, with minimum contract values of $3,000 and maximum cumulative values per contract of $50,000,000. The place of performance is Washington, DC, reflecting the FEDLINK program's role in providing federal entities with access to commercial electronic information resources and specialized library services on an indefinite-quantity basis.