Empire Library Delivery
Procurement Announcement
The New York 3Rs Association, Inc. (NY 3Rs) announces plans for a procurement of library delivery services for libraries throughout the State of New York. This procurement has the potential to include up to five stops per week at more than 400 libraries located in all New York counties as well as a connecting route to facilitate daily cargo transfers between eight or nine transportation hubs. Proposals covering the entire state as well as for smaller service areas will be accepted. The individual parts are likely to correspond with the territories of one or more of the NY 3Rs organizations, which are described at http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/libs/county_r.htm. The initial contract will include the statewide LAND service for academic libraries and a few large public libraries, and a connecting route between hubs; it is likely to include several 3Rs routes as well. Other parts may be phased in over several years.
Library delivery service in New York is now provided through multiple contracts. One contract is the statewide LAND delivery contract, which currently includes mainly academic libraries, three large public libraries and one public library system. There are currently 114 participants. The LAND contract overlaps with other regional contracts that are managed by four NY 3Rs members and a number of public library systems. Participating libraries in the regional services are of all types, i.e., public, K-12 school, special, and academic libraries. See service summaries on our website at http://www.empirelibrarydelivery.org/summary-of-existing-services/.
This project is on a fast track, and NY 3Rs Association, Inc. will issue a draft RFP for bidder comment in January 2012. The final RFP will be issued in February 2012 in order to implement the new service(s) on July 1, 2012.
A web site is available to provide stakeholder and vendor information, updates, and a schedule. Potential bidders and stakeholder libraries are invited to register for notification of site updates to stay informed about the progress of this important procurement. We welcome your questions at the site.
See: http://www.empirelibrarydelivery.org/
Sincerely,
Debby Emerson, Executive Director, Central New York Library Resources Council
Contact info:
demerson@clrc.org
