The Library of Congress has a requirement for an ultrasonic welder to create polyester enclosures. This is to protect a wide variety of collection formats including prints, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and architectural drawings. This encapsulation practice is widely accepted throughout cultural heritage institutions as a safe and cost effective method to preserve these vulnerable paper-based collections and to enable them to be handled for scholarly use, reformatting and public display. 

The Library intends to issue the requirement described above as a sole source order to William Minter Bookbinding and Conservation in Woodbury, PA. Any firm that wishes to be considered for this requirement must submit a capability statement and include its key personnel that demonstrates its ability to meet the work described in the attached draft Statement of Work.

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