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Bid Information
005-RFP-0684-2024
On-Premise Media Asset Management
Request for Proposals
Description
Iowa PBS is Iowa's statewide public broadcasting network. Iowa PBS provides quality, innovative media and services that educate, inform, enrich and inspire Iowans throughout the state.
A noncommercial, public-service mission enables Iowa PBS to present an unequaled array of programs of lasting value to Iowans regardless of where they live or what they can afford. More than two million viewers each month turn to Iowa PBS for programming that reflects a range of interests for Iowans in all demographic categories.
To support this mission, Iowa PBS seeks a secure on-premise media asset management solution with the ability to scale to a cloud solution for the simplification, centralization, and management of its media assets. The organization requires an easy-to-use solution that will allow it to store, view, edit, and share files across multiple teams and users from ingest to archive. The solution will be used regularly by up to 90 employees to access, create, curate, and preserve low and high resolution content that currently resides in various on-premise storage locations. There is no current asset management system in use outside of our broadcast automation system. The addition of a media asset management system will enable the organization to continue to create, innovate, and distribute new and archival content to the public through traditional television broadcast, as well as digital distribution channels.
Adobe Creative Cloud suite is currently used for creating multimedia content including video, graphics, motion graphics, audio, PDF, etc. and staff work on PC and Apple products. Supportive materials are also created on Microsoft Office and Google Drive platforms. Various units within the organization also leverage outside vendors and purchase creative media, such as stock imagery, stock video, stock audio and other digital media as well as custom-created media. The solution will be the single source of truth for all media project-related assets. Once fully implemented (current digital media, as well as digitized legacy media) Iowa PBS expects to have more than a petabyte of time based media with over 50,000 records hosted in the media asset management solution.
Technical environment
Iowa PBS utilizes multiple methods of digital asset storage with the primary three being Dell PowerEdge server onboard storage (approx. 200TB usable), Dell PowerVault ME5 SAN (approx. 1.2PB usable) and a SpectraLogic T950 LTO9 tape library (approx. 2.5PB usable). Our Production team uses the Dell Server and SAN storage for projects that are in development and have many active unstructured datasets (files and directories). The SpectraLogic tape library is used to store finished productions that are ingested through a Telestream Kumulate server that is the sole file mover. This Kumulate server is directly connected to the tape library via fiber channel connections.
The Iowa PBS Production team will access the digital assets from 10 Edit Suites that will be connected with 10Gbe along with 20 production laptops that will access the storage via 1Gbe connections. The Production staff will be typically accessing the digital assets via the Adobe Creative Cloud suite as well as Avid ProTools.
Agency Information
005
Administrative Services, Dept
1305 E Walnut
Des Moines, IA 50319
Contact Information
Valid Dates
11/11/2023 4:30:00 PM
12/29/2023 1:00:00 PM
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