In-House Competing Service Bureaus

• Sublet space yearly to pool of bidders

• Award 5 each year, recompete yearly

• Give adjacent space within LC to awardees

• LC groups bring individual jobs to any/all for bids

• Each can specialize their equipment/procedures

  • e.g. large documents, microfilm, etc.

• Low risk to collections

• Quick correction of failures: see early results

• Strong competition, low prices