The Texas General Land Office (“GLO”) is requesting offers from experienced, qualified Respondents to provide the most advanced equipment to scan a diverse range of documents, including but not limited to oversized, flat, and bound items; as well as textured and fragile archival materials to be scanned safely, with accuracy, and with minimal distortion. The GLO seeks a large 51 x 35-inch flat table scanner with an A0 HD LED scanner and a motorized A0 book cradle that has the ability to capture digital images from a diverse collection of materials. A scanner is essential to the mission of the GLO’s Archives and Records department: to preserve, maintain, and make available the historical records of the General Land Office for future generations of Texans to view. Respondent shall provide installation and training along with operator’s manuals, manufacturing specifications, and schematics in proposal submission. Respondent must submit an example of a Golden Thread Object-Level target and full image analysis from the same model of equipment that is being offered with their response to show FADGI 4-star compliancy. a) The scanner must be capable of handling and digitizing GLO’s diverse, fragile, large format, and bound and unbound items at a high optical resolution with precise image fidelity. Scanner must accommodate materials up to A0 size (35.7 x 51.2 inches). b) Scanner must be fully compliant with the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (“FADGI”), 4-star rating standard. c) The GLO prefers a scanner that limits the use of digital filters to enhance measured Modular Transfer Function, (MTF) on the edges of test targets such as QA-62 to achieve the MTF levels expected in image quality standards, ISO19264-1, FADGI and Metamorfoze without any real gain in image details. The use of digital filters shall not create visible artifacts like digital noise on characters' edges or QA-62 test targets. d) Scanner must have the ability to capture and generate 3D files (.obj) with textured applied.
