NARA RFQ: Congressional Web Harvesting, Hosting and Operations and Maintenance

Notice ID: 88310324Q00042

The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, materials, management, and supervision to host existing and newly harvested websites; capture, transfer, and provide access to a snapshot of Congressional websites at the end of two (2) two-year Congressional terms.

This PWS describes the project and related tasks to capture, transfer and provide access to a harvest of Congressional public websites at the end of the 118th and 119th Congresses. The following constitute the goals with respect to capturing an End-of-Congress web harvest:

2.2.1 Copying each Congressional website on the NARA-supplied list of URLs in Web ARChiving (WARC) format;

2.2.2 Providing NARA with a copy suitable for preservation preferably transferable directly onto a NARA designated hard drive or in a format and on a media identified in this Performance Work Statement (PWS);

2.2.3 Providing Internet-based access to the entire NARA collection of the past Federal and past Congressional websites via https://www.webharvest.gov. Newly harvested content shall be added to https://www.webharvest.gov by February 28, 2025, and subsequently by February 28, 2027 (for Base Year and Option Year 2); and

2.2.4 Supporting transition to NARA or subsequent contractor for future harvests and hosting of webharvest.gov if needed as determined by the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR).

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