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Employee Education System HD AV Transport

The Employee Education System (EES) is seeking to award a one-year Firm-Fixed Price contract for delivery of HD video and audio signals from EES’s VACO studios to a transport service positioned outside the VA firewall

Background:  EES has historically leveraged its satellite uplink and terrestrial content delivery capability to deliver and distribute content to internal VA learners inside the VA firewall. EES now has a requirement to make content available to both internal and external learners positioned inside and outside the VA firewall.  

Objectives:  Deliver HD video and audio signals from EES’s VACO studios to a transport service positioned outside the VA firewall.

Scope of Work:  

 The contractor shall appropriately route, distribute, and monitor all audio and video signals originating from the VACO studios. The contractor will route and distribute the available HD video and audio signals to a variety of distribution platforms located at the contractor’s facility, to include internet and satellite delivery platforms in standard broadcast and webcast formats. The contractor shall host no less than two networked VA-provided video encoders connected to HD video distribution. The contractor shall also provide video engineering support.

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