Ithaka Harbors Inc.

Ithaka Harbors Inc. Jstor Division, a tax-exempt non-profit organization headquartered in New York, supplies digital library subscriptions—academic journals, e-books, archival collections, primary sources, and databases—to federal agencies as a prime contractor across 354 recent awards with a combined potential value of $57.3 million. The organization competes full-and-open with no small-business set-asides; all federal work is priced as firm fixed-price subscription renewals and database access orders, many awarded sole-source under FAR 6.302-1 (patent, copyright, and proprietary data limitations) given JSTOR's exclusive content position.

Ithaka Harbors' federal customer base is highly dispersed across 72 agencies, reflecting the broad institutional demand for scholarly content access. The top five agencies account for only 25% of recent awards by count, led by the Naval Education and Training Command (26 awards, $312 thousand combined potential value), West Point Military Academy (19 awards, $656 thousand), and the Bureau of Naval Personnel (18 awards, $373 thousand). Concentration by dollar value is similarly diffuse: West Point leads at $656 thousand, followed by the Department of State Bureau of Administration ($402 thousand) and the Bureau of Naval Personnel ($373 thousand). The Air Education and Training Command and Naval Education and Training Command follow with $362 thousand and $312 thousand respectively. No customer dominates; the top five by potential value account for only 4% of total combined potential value across the portfolio, indicating mission-critical but modestly-valued subscription orders distributed across the federal enterprise.

Ithaka Harbors holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Library of Congress FEDLINK program (awarded December 23, 2025, ceiling $50 million through December 31, 2026) for commercial off-the-shelf electronic resources, databases, document delivery services, and specialized access platforms. This vehicle carries a firm fixed-price model with volume discounts and a minimum contract value of $3,000, enabling delivery orders from executive, legislative, and judicial branch entities. The organization also places task orders under three additional IDICs: Indefinite Delivery Contract 03310319D0075 (13 task orders, $651 thousand combined potential value), the FEDLINK Information Retrieval Services vehicle (13 task orders, $515 thousand), and Indefinite Delivery Contract LC09D7031 (15 task orders, $330 thousand).

Representative prime contract work includes a $59,688.50 delivery order from the Department of State Bureau of Administration (September 2026) for JSTOR database subscriptions under FEDLINK; a $89,610 delivery order from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (September 2026) for electronic subscriptions to JSTOR Life Sciences Archive, Arts & Sciences VII Collection, and Global Plants Database; a $86,880 purchase order from West Point (February 2025) for an online database renewal with ultimate completion through February 2030; a $130,000 purchase order from the Maritime Administration (July 2024) for JSTOR EBA e-books and essentials journals collection renewal; and a $114,465 purchase order from the Army War College (March 2024) for perpetual access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences and Security Studies collections. Activity has declined from 11 awards in 2024 to five in 2025 and four in 2026, with only one award recorded for 2027; seven awards with combined potential value of $610 thousand reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure across federal library operations.

Ithaka Harbors also operates as a federal grant recipient through its Ithaka S+R research division, which pursues mission-driven work in scholarly communication infrastructure, digital preservation, and equitable information access. Recent grants include a $112,441 NSF Project Grant (CFDA 47.083, Integrative Activities) awarded December 2024 for planning regional hubs addressing artificial intelligence implementation at emerging research institutions; a $303,386 IMLS National Leadership Grants for Museums award (CFDA 45.312) for a two-year examination of legal information access for incarcerated individuals; a $74,376 National Endowment for the Humanities grant (March 2023) for exploratory research on preservation challenges faced by community organizations collecting work by incarcerated people; and an $81,000 IMLS grant (August 2022) exploring cross-library collaboration to serve system-impacted patrons. Grant work centers on research and policy analysis rather than service delivery and operates independently from the JSTOR subscription contract portfolio.