Media Asset Management System

The purpose of this Solicitation is to obtain pricing for and procure the Iconik Media Asset Management system by Backlight for PBS NC. Goods and Services will be provided in accordance to the terms and conditions of this Solicitation.

The Contractor shall provide PBS North Carolina with a three (3) year or thirty six (36) month subscription to the Iconik Professional cloud-based media asset management platform with option to extend two additional 1 year options.

The subscription shall include the following user licenses and system capacity: Three Power Users, Seventeen Standard Users, Ten Browse Users, Twenty Five terabytes of proxy storage, Five hundred gigabytes per month of transfer/egress capacity, Five hundred AI credits per month, Fifty thousand workflow automations per month.

The subscription shall include the base Iconik Professional service, one additional Power User license, two additional Standard User licenses, ten Browse User licenses, and eighteen additional one-terabyte proxy-storage increments, as identified in the vendor's service order.

Along with this subscription, the contractor shall be responsible for database migration of titles and metadata for assets in PBS NC's current Media Asset Management (MAM) system, Dalet Galaxy. The contractor will also be responsible for integrating several other existing PBS NC systems into the new MAM infrastructure, such as Telestream DIVA Archive, Telestream Vantage, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Quantum Xcellis on premises storage utilizing the Iconik storage gateway. Lastly, the contractor will work with PBS NC to assure all onboarding, video migrations, and Metadata import workflows and major workflow configurations are operational with the new Iconik MAM infrastructure.

Workflow Configuration

The Contractor shall configure or demonstrate the system's ability to create and manage automated workflows for the following functions:

• Master control delivery
• Captioning through Telestream Vantage
• Archiving through Telestream DIVA
• Exporting and distributing content to external destinations, including potential destinations such as YouTube
• Transfer of media and associated metadata between system components

The Contractor shall provide and configure an Iconik Storage Gateway to connect the Iconik cloud platform with PBS North Carolina's on-premises storage systems, including Quantum Xcellis.

The initial subscription term shall be thirty six months and shall be billed annually. The subscription may be renewed for additional twelve-month periods, subject to PBS North Carolina's approval and applicable renewal pricing.

Submit one (1) signed, original electronic offer via the **Ariba Sourcing Module**. The Vendor to include the Execution Page 1 WITH the remaining pages of the solicitation in one PDF. Failure to return a signed offer shall result in disqualification.

It is the general intent to award this contract to one (1) Vendor. Award will be based on Best Value Analysis, Lowest Price Technically Acceptable Source Selection Method in accordance with 09 NCAC 06B. 0302 Information Technology Procurement.

A contract awarded pursuant to this RFQ/IFB shall have an effective date as provided in the Notice of Award. The State retains the option to extend this contract for two (2) additional one (1) year periods at its sole discretion.

Offer valid for sixty (60) days from date of offer opening unless otherwise stated.