Procurement
Records and Information Services (DORIS)
MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES
PRESERVE SOUTH INC
5023 B U Bowman Drive , Buford, GA, 30518
5023 B U Bowman Drive , Buford, GA, 30518
Services (other than human services)
M/WBE Noncompetitive Small Purchase
7/3/2023
Award
$63,389.92
PIN#86023W0001001
Description
The NYC Municipal Archives has procured the services of a vendor to digitize 1,750 archival ¾”u-matic tapes from the Channel L collection. The collection was produced from 1977 to 1991 and most tapes are 1 full-hour in length, some 30 minutes. The tapes are all fully produced and edited television shows about contemporary events in NYC, hosted by city government officials. Vendor will digitize the tapes in accordance with the standards set by the Library of Congress in its recommended format statement. Vendor will create both archival quality copies as JPEG200 MKV files and lower resolution access copies as h.264 MP4 files. Vendor will adhere to archival digitization procedures and metadata creation.