Specifications include, but are not limited to: The University of Tennessee Libraries (Libraries) seeks a vendor-supported, hosted repository service to replace its bepress Digital Commons-hosted institutional repository platform, TRACE (Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange) https://trace.tennessee.edu/. The repository platform must be based on an open source repository solution and hosted and supported by the vendor. The project will include migration of all digital objects (the primary file, supplemental files / bitstreams / related binary files, embargo and access restrictions, technical metadata, descriptive metadata, licenses) to the new repository platform. TRACE currently houses approximately 35,000 works that total 0.5 TB in size. On an annual basis, around 5,000 new items are added to the repository, while approximately 1.3 million items are downloaded each year. The University of Tennessee is the state’s land grant, higher education institution and flagship public university. The Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee enrollment for 2022 was 33,805 (27,039 undergraduate and 6766 graduate students). There are 1600 full time instructional faculty, and 4989 total faculty and staff on the Knoxville campus. Included among the entities that comprise the Knoxville campus are the Institute of Agriculture, Space Institute (Tullahoma), the College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Law, the College of Social Work (Knoxville and Nashville), and the UT Oak Ridge Innovation Institute.
