Software programming and consultancy services

Description

Original description of tender: TV 2 DANMARK A/S (hereinafter referred to as TV 2) has called for the supply of a Production Asset Management System (PAM). The tender was carried through as a competitive procedure with negotiation. The vision for the PAM project is: — anywhere ingest, editing and publishing of video in a collaborative and intuitive environment. The PAM system is a very important component in TV 2 overall vision for a complete News and Sports Collaboration Platform allowing journalists and the production staff to collaborate efficiently whether they are working in Odense, Copenhagen or anywhere else in the world and whether they are producing to the main News show, Facebook or any new media. Original description of tender: The scope of the PAM project is: — video ingest — SDI, stream, proxy streams, including a scheduling application for recording, — video ingest — files and camera files, — logging applications (generic shot-listing adding metadata, sports logging), — Easy Video Editing, — Craft Video Editing, — a generic publishing mechanism (Send to), — all storage required for any in-house video production, — storage- and media management. The management system is assumed to cover all management and Housekeeping including EDL management, media management, deletion, etc. — media management includes media in our current Avid Interplay DIVArchive (offline tapes — in which the media is stored in AAF and OP-Atom). This archived media must be restorable for use in the new PAM, — migration of metadata from the current Avid Interplay archive database to the new media management database, — migration of media and metadata from current Avid Interplay systems to the new PAM, while in a 24-hour operation, — APIs and integration points to various other TV 2 systems such as the central TV 2 Content HUB (that holds descriptive metadata, reference metadata and Story/Project (collections)) and integration to an editorial planning system, etc. — expose all harvested metadata to the TV 2 Content HUB via API, — follow the TV 2 story-centric concept, — a metadata-driven PAM workflow orchestration — the mechanism to carry out all required actions of moving media within the PAM system as well as in and out of the PAM, according to rules and user-initiated workflows, — all services required for background rendering, flattening of files, transfers to playout servers and publishing platforms, generation of proxy files, etc. Options: — 5 000 hours high-bitrate and proxy editing storage, — 10 000 hours high-bitrate nearline storage and proxy editing storage, — 25 000 hours proxy parking storage (expected growth a year), — server hardware, network equipment, and 3rd party software that TV 2 can acquire through regular channels, — 20 — 30 HD-SDI playout channels across 2 sites (Odense and Copenhagen), — fast turnaround ingest/playout (16 channels in/10 channels out). All required hardware and software to run the proposed solution must be offered.