SW-115342 - USA (Colorado) - Cloud-Based Digital Preservation Software - Deadline July 3,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide cloud–based digital preservation software. – Provide Digital Preservation System (DPS) to support the long–term management, preservation, and access of the library’s digital collections.– Includes stewarding digital content in a way that ensures authenticity, reliability, and ongoing access over time.– Use the DPS to create a sustainable, secure, and scalable environment for preserving and providing access to digital assets while streamlining staff workflows.  – System that combines a management platform (software as a service) and a preservation storage environment in order to support the full lifecycle of digital content, including ingest, management, preservation, and access over time.– Manages and preserves digital content using a combination of locally managed storage and cloud services, and a set of largely open–source tools that provide digital preservation functions such as virus checking, disk imaging, file characterization, fixity verification, and metadata extraction.– Management documentation (including checksums, manifests, and PREMIS metadata) is largely stored as XML, TXT, and PDF files in managed storage.– Ensure integrity and authenticity through checksums, scheduled fixity checking, automated repair from replicated copies, and full audit logging with preservation metadata (e.g., PREMIS).– Support complex digital objects with persistent identifiers and preservation of structure, versions, and relationships between components.– Provide system independence and exit options by storing content in application–independent structures, supporting batch export of content and metadata, and enabling software escrow.– Enable secure, scalable ingest with virus checking, quarantine, retention of bitstreams and essential context (structure, timestamps, documentation, metadata), and ingest reporting with issue flagging.– System hosting and SaaS model.– Single Sign–On (SSO) compatibility.– Record and document preservation actions and their outcomes in preservation metadata.(2) All the questions must be submitted no later than June 19, 2026.