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T -- PHOTOGRAPHIC, MAPPING, PRINTING, & PUBLICATION SERVICES SOL N00600-97-I-2706 DUE 072197 POC To make requests for a copy of the Draft RFI contact FISC Norfolk Detachment Washington Customer Service Center by fax at (202) 433-9569. For additional questions contact Carol Bacon, Contract Specialist, Code 02W1.7D at (202) 433-6383. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, Detachment Washington intends to issue a Request for Information (RFI) for industry comment, RFI N00600-9 -I-2706, in support of the National Archives and Records Administration. A request for proposal will be issued at a later date. The government intends to award a firm fixed price, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity type contract. The government reserves the right to award more than one contract for this requirement. Past performance will be a key evaluation factor. The government intends to have oral presentations and only Contractor personnel shall participate in the presentation. This requirement is for a base year and four year options. Comments are encouraged on the draft Statement of Work and are due no later than 21 July 1997. This requirement will not be restricted, full and open competition is encouraged. The SIC code for this requirement is 7384. Fax all comments on the statement of work to Ms.Carol Bacon, 02W1.7D (202) 433-2401. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) would like to establish a contract for the preservation duplication of 9 1/2" wide by 500' long rolls of aerial photographic negatives on acetate safety film. NARA anticipates a one year, indefinite quantity, firm fixed price contract, with four option years. The contract may be a single or multiple award contract. The National Archives anticipates that approximately 240 rolls of film shall be duplicated per year and offers a guarantee minimum of 24 rolls per year. NARA requires the services of a contractor(s) to produce new rolls of direct duplicate negatives from the rolls of original negatives. All work should be performed at the contractor(s) site, the contractor(s) shall be responsible for providing all supplies, equipment and labor to duplicate the roll of aerial negatives. Due to legal agreements that require NARA to provide rolls of specific aerial film to the originating agencies within 24 hours of request, the contractor(s) may be required occasionally to return or ship specified original rolls to NARA within 24 hours of a request from NARA. This contract shall be restricted to vendors within the local metropolitan DC geographical area, within 90 mile radius of the National Archives at College Park. The overall objective of this contract is to obtain preservation quality rolls of duplicate negatives, retaining the complete informational content accurate tonal character of the original negatives. The contractor(s) shall inspect the rolls of original aerial film in preparation for duplication, shall clean the original film if needed, and repair the original film if needed. The rolls of direct duplicate negatives shall be produced using a polyester-based (4mil or 5 mil), fine grained, medium contrast, continuous tone black and white, silver gelatin film. -- All rolls of direct duplicate negatives shall be contact printed, emulsion to emulsion, on a roll to roll aerial film contact printer; the printer shall be equipped with static eliminators and film cleaning apparatus (such as a particle transfer roller cleaner). Sensitometric tests shall be conducted by the contractor (s) to determine optimal exposure/developer/ development time for the direct duplicate negatives to produce an accurate reproduction of the original negatives. All film shall be processed to meet the appropriate archival standard as specified in ANSI IT9.2. The contractor(s) shall place the rolls in archival containers and label the containers. The contractor (s) shall initiate, document, and maintain a quality control program to ensure the quality of the rolls of duplicated aerial film produced. (0177)

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