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Proposal submissions must be received no later than 11:59 p.m., local time, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.  Proposals will be opened the following business day. Proposals not submitted to the Division of Procurement Services’ aforementioned e-mail address by the aforementioned deadline will not be considered for contract award.\n*************************************************\n\u000fRFP TERMS/ACRONYMS with DEFINITIONS\nThe following terms and acronyms, as referenced in the RFP, shall have the meanings indicated below:\n\u000fState of Maine – Maine State Library\nRFP# 202404081\nStatewide Database Package of Online Resources\nPART I\tINTRODUCTION\nPurpose and Background\nThe Maine State Library (Department) is seeking is proposals to provide a thorough a cloud hosted, vendor managed statewide database package for Digital Maine Library as defined in this Request for Proposal (RFP) document. This document provides instructions for submitting proposals, the procedure and criteria by which the awarded Bidder will be selected, and the contractual terms which will govern the relationship between the State of Maine (State) and the awarded Bidder.\nDigital Maine Library (DML), \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://library.digitalmaine.org/\" \\h \u0014https://library.digitalmaine.org/\u0015, provides free access to a collection of online databases and digital resources accessible to all Maine residents, schools, libraries of all types, community colleges, and universities. These resources facilitate lifelong learning and support students from early education to post graduate studies. DML consists primarily of fee-based resources and does include some carefully curated free reference resources provided for users’ convenience.\nDML is a collaboration between the Maine State Library, the University of Maine, and other public/private organizations that collectively fund the statewide licensing of these resources.\nFor a full list of DML’s current resources, go to \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://library.digitalmaine.org/all-databases/\" \u0014https://library.digitalmaine.org/all-databases/\u0015.\nIn an effort to ensure that MSL offers the best possible statewide database resources, this RFP seeks a substantial database package. There will be an additional process in the near future that will result in a Pre-Qualified Vendor List to provide additional one-off online content resources for products that are not included in this larger database package.\nAs a result of this RFP, the Department will award one bid on a comprehensive core collection comprised of a variety of non-fiction resources that support the general education and research needs of K-12 and higher education audiences, as well as the general information and lifelong learning needs of the general public. This core collection must provide unlimited, authorized concurrent users, and be available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, with minimal downtime.\nThis demographic data is provided in order for Bidders to provide accurate information in bids.\nState of Maine\nEstimated total population: 1,395,722 (most recent available data from July 2023; retrieved from United States Census Bureau)\nMaine A","cbCaiaFVRPeqD8bo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaFVRPeqD8bo","docx",473488,32,"English","# Public Notice\n# RFP Terms/Acronyms with Definitions\n# Part I Introduction\n## Purpose and Background\n## General Provisions","[{\"question\":\"What is the Maine State Library seeking in this RFP?\",\"answer\":\"A proposal for a single statewide package of online content (databases) delivered as a cloud-hosted, vendor-managed solution for Digital Maine Library, plus quotes for individually identified online resources.\"},{\"question\":\"When is the proposal submission deadline?\",\"answer\":\"Proposals must be received no later than 11:59 p.m., local time, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.\"},{\"question\":\"What availability and user-access requirements does the core collection need to meet?\",\"answer\":\"It must provide unlimited authorized concurrent users, be available 24 hours per day and 365 days per year, and have minimal downtime.\"}]","Statewide Database Package of Online Resources - RFP 202404081 | DOCX",1788308752]