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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JUNE 04, 2005 FBO #1286
SOLICITATION NOTICE

B -- Catalog Historic Edison Cylinder Sound Recordings

Notice Date

6/2/2005
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

Contracting Office

NER - STLI Statue of Liberty National Monument Ellis Island Procurement Office Jersey City NJ 07305
 

ZIP Code

07305
 

Solicitation Number

Q194005E006
 

Response Due

7/13/2005
 

Archive Date

6/2/2006
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The National Park Service at the Statue of Liberty National Monument is issuing a commercial solicitation (Request for Quotation - RFQ) for the cataloging of an estimated 2700 historic cylinder-format phonograph records at Edison National Historic Site (ENHS) in West Orange, New Jersey. The performance of the work shall take place at Edison National Historic Site in the recorded sound storage vault: a high security, windowless, temperature, and humidity-controlled archival storage facility. The solicitation, to include the Statement of Work and Wage Determination, will be posted to the Governmentwide Point of Entry (GPE) website, http://www.fedbizopps.gov on or about June 17, 2005. The NAICS 2002 code for this project is 519120 with a size standard of six million dollars, ($6,000,000.00). The archive at Edison National Historic Site includes approximately a total of 10,000 cylinder phonograph records produced by Thomas Edison in West Orange, New Jersey, between the years 1888 and 1929. Many of these have been at the Laboratory since Edison's lifetime. Some of the earliest examples of recorded sound in existence are preserved within this unique collection. The cylinder record objects are very fragile. All of the cylinders are rare, many are totally unique. The utmost of care must be used when handling and moving the items. The subject matter of the recordings is mostly music, covering genres popular in the United States during Edison's era: popular songs, instrumental classical, opera, brass band marches, ragtime, country, minstrelsy, dance bands, and spirituals. Spoken word recordings include vaudeville comedy sketches, documentary speeches, educational lessons, and motion picture soundtracks. Experimental recordings document research carried out at the Edison Laboratory to develop early-recorded sound technologies.
 

Web Link

Please click here to view more details.
(http://ideasec.nbc.gov/j2ee/announcementdetail.jsp?serverId=NP144302&objId=1822642)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Edison National Historic Site (ENHS), West Orange, New Jersey

Zip Code: 07052

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00821064-W 20050604/050602235037 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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