Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Norfolk Washington Detachment 901 M.Street, S.E. Bldg. 200 4th Flr., Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC 203

T -- STILL PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE DUPLICATION SOL N00600-97-R-2707 DUE 091597 POC 11. To make requests for a copy of the Solicitation, contact FISC Norfolk Detachment Washington Customer Service Center by fax at (202) 433-9569. For additional questions contact Mr. Courtney J. Edmonds, Contract Specialist, Code 02W1.7F at (202) 433-6383 The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center intends to establish a contract, in support of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), for the preservation duplication of historic still photographic negatives on acetate safety film by producing interpositives and duplicate negatives on 70mm roll film. NARA anticipates that approximately 33,000 negatives shall be duplicated per year. The original negatives to be duplicated in the first year are in Record Group 286, Records of the Agency for International Development (AID), and were produced by AID and its predecessors to document economic recovery in Europe under the "Marshall Plan". The negatives range in size from 35mm frames up to 4"x5". All work shall be performed at the contractor(s) work site, the contractor(s) shall be responsible for providing all supplies, equipment and labor to duplicate the original negatives. The overall objective of this contract is to obtain preservation quality 6cm x 7cm (or 6cm x 9cm) format interpositives on 100' rolls of 70mm wide film using a high-quality camera system and contact printed duplicate negatives produced from the rolls of interpositives, all retaining the complete informational content and accurate tonal character of the original negatives. The duplicate negatives shall be cut into strips and sleeved in plastic storage pages. The unique item number for each negative shall be photographically printed onto each interpositive and duplicate negative. The contractor(s) shall inspect the original negatives in preparation for duplication, shall clean the original negatives if needed, and shall not duplicate any deteriorated negatives that are found. The interpositives and duplicate negatives shall be produced using a polyester-based (4 mil or 5 mil), fine grained, medium contrast, continuous-tone black and white, silver gelatin film; the film used for the interpositives shall panchromatic. All duplicate negatives shall be contract printed, emulsion-to-emulsion, on a roll to roll film contact printer, and cutinto strips after processing. Sensitometric tests shall be conducted by the contractor(s) to determine optimal exposure/developer/development time for the interpositives and duplicate negatives to produce an accurate reproduction of the original negatives. All film shall be processed to meet the appropriate archival standards as specified in ANSI IT9.2. The contractor(s) shall place the rolls of interpositives in archival containers and label the containers as specified. The contractor(s) shall cut, sleeve, folder, and box the duplicate negatives. All negative pages, folders, and boxes shall be of archival quality and shall be labeled by the contractor(s) as specified. The contractor(s) shall initiate, document, and maintain a quality control program to ensure the quality of the interpositives and duplicate negatives produced. 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 option years. The guaranteed minimum will be 20% of the base year awarded dollar amount. The SIC code for this requirement is 7819. This requiremenent is 100% small business set-aside. See Note 1. (0206)

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