Notice of Proposed Sole Source Purchase of Preservica Professional Cloud

The University of Southern Mississippi is seeking to renew its digital preservation system, Preservica, through a sole source purchase. The system must meet specific functional requirements, including compliance with ISO standards, bit-level preservation, and support for migration-based preservation strategies. The university has developed workflows and functional schemas within the current system and believes that redesigning them around another system would be time and cost prohibitive. Some key features required include automated fixity checks, support for custom file formats, and integration with established file format registries. The system must also allow for access restrictions, generate reports, and have a robust user community with timely customer support. • Must be compliant with ISO standards • Must support bit-level preservation and migration-based preservation strategies • Must automate the migration of proprietary file formats into sustainable file formats • Must link to established file format registries • Must automatically extract technical metadata from various file formats • Must generate access derivatives from preservation files for online rendering • Must support custom file formats and render websites and emails for preservation and access • Must have an integrated access portal and allow for access restrictions • Must generate reports and have a robust user community with timely customer support