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<b>Subject:</b> Smithsonian (NMNH) Seeks Contractor for Paleobiology specimen handling and data management services</font>
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Please see updated and re-released RFQ and forward to anyone who might be interested! Thank you!</div>
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The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Department of Paleobiology is seeking one contractor to assist with moving collections, specimen rehousing, and specimen data collection and quality control in the Cenozoic marine invertebrate collections.
These collections are being digitized as part of a multi-institution, multi-year project to digitize and web-mobilize 1.6 million fossil specimens to document ecological and evolutionary change in Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Cenozoic Communities. The NMNH
project leaders are seeking contractors to perform the following tasks (see attached Request for Quotes and Statement of Work for details):</p>
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</span></span></span>Researching and recording data from specimen labels and archival materials according to established protocols.</p>
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</span></span></span>Identifying key information necessary for photography for specimen trays according to established protocols.</p>
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</span></span></span>Transcription of related archival materials for the creation of digital datasets.</p>
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</span></span></span>Data quality control services of designated spreadsheets created through the mass digitization process.</p>
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</span></span></span>Moving specimen drawers from the collections storage area to a cleaning station.</p>
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</span></span></span>Providing light cleaning and rehousing in preparation for digitization.</p>
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</span></span></span>Staging at least three cases of cleaned/rehoused drawers in the mass digitization area before the start of mass digitization work each day.
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</span></span></span>Putting away specimen drawers from the mass digitization area to collections storage.</p>
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<b>Proposals will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. EDT, Friday December 13, 2019. Proposals will be reviewed on the basis of best value for the money considering multiple evaluation factors as defined in the attached RFQ. Send proposals to Kathy Hollis via e-mail
at <a href="mailto:hollisk@si.edu">hollisk@si.edu</a>. Follow the format set forth in section VIII of the RFQ (attached) "Information to be submitted with quotes."</b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Avenir Book"">Kathy Hollis</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Avenir Book"">Department of Paleobiology</span></p>
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