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Division: Procurement Department
Contract Number: 042021
Contract Term: 4 years, with potential 1 year extension Date of Issue: 03/02/2021
Due Date/Time: 04/20/2021 4:30 PM
Central Time
County(ies): All NYS counties
Classification: Telecommunications - Commodities
Opportunity Type: General
Entered By: Chris Robinson
Description: Sourcewell, a State of Minnesota local government agency and service cooperative, is requesting proposals for Public Safety Communications Technology and Hardware Solutions to result in a contracting solution for use by its Participating Entities. Sourcewell Participating Entities include thousands of governmental, higher education, K-12 education, nonprofit, tribal government, and other public agencies located in the United States and Canada. A full copy of the Request for Proposals can be found on the Sourcewell Procurement Portal [https://proportal .sourcewell-mn.gov]. Only proposals submitted through the Sourcewell Procurement Portal will be considered. Proposals are due no later than April 20, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. Central Time, and late proposals will not be considered.
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Contact Information
Primary contact: Sourcewell
Procurement Department
Chris Robinson
Procurement Manager
202 12th Street NE
P.O. Box 219
Staples, MN 56479
United States
Ph: 218-895-4168
[email protected]
Submit to contact: Sourcewell
Procurement Department
Chris Robinson
Procurement Manager
202 12th Street NE
P.O. Box 219
Staples, MN 56479
United States
Ph: 218-895-4168
[email protected]
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Pull up YouTube and type the words
“LeBron James Nemanja Bjelica” in the
search bar. The page will load with clips
– one titled “LeBron James Wanna Mur-
der Nemanja Bjelica With Dunk Then
Stare Down” – of James firing down the
lane and dunking over Bjelica.
Watch it free of charge. Replay it as
often as desired.
Last Monday an NBA Top Shot user
named “jesse” paid $208,000 for that
highlight.
Except in this case, highlight might
be the wrong word. So what was pur-
chased?
On Top Shot, the latest internet
craze, such highlights are referred to as
“moments.” And what “jesse” (aka Jesse
Schwarz) actually purchased is the
NBA ’s intellectual property of that mo-
ment in the form of a digital collectible
sold through blockchain technology
that gave him one of the 49 minted Le-
Bron James Cosmic (Series) 1 Dunks.
Top Shot has received a lot of atten-
tion after rapid marketplace growth
over the last week. As of Wednesday,
the site had more than 350,000 active
users and 100,000 purchasing users.
Top Shot did more than $37 million in
sales over a 24-hour period Monday, ac-
cording to Cryptoslam, and buyers have
surpassed sellers (slightly) in the mar-
ketplace.
The NBA and Players Association are
in a revenue-sharing agreement on each
transaction with Dapper Labs, which
built and maintains the marketplace.
NBA players open packs of moments on
livestreams. The rise of Top Shot has
sparked debates over the definition of
“ownership” and whether this method
can provide a blueprint for the future of
the collector’s market.
Welcome to the all-or-nothing stakes
of NBA Top Shot.
How it works
The concept of digital ownership is
the biggest hurdle to understanding Top
Shot. Of course, believing in digital
ownership means thinking an intangi-
ble item everyone and anyone can ac-
cess at any time is capable of being
owned and that ownership leads to val-
ue.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) exist on
a blockchain, of which there are an infi-
nite amount. No two NFTs are the same
and cannot be divided or multiplied
(unlike Bitcoin).
Each moment – a short video from
multiple angles – on Top Shot is an NFT.
This is how moments (aka highlights)
are bought, sold and traded in the digital
marketplace.
“NFTs in general, of which Top Shot
is the first and a leader, could turn into a
top 3 revenue source for the NBA over
the next 10 years,” Mavericks owner
Mark Cuban wrote to USA TODAY
Sports in an email.
A different James dunk sold for
$125,000 on Thursday, two days after a
Ja Morant “Holo MMMXX” went for
$100,000 – the same price somebody
paid for a Zion Williamson block (also
the most-expensive non-dunk sale).
Overnight, a Williamson rookie de-
but card, also a block, sold for $77,777.
Vince Carter’s final career 3-pointer
sold last Monday for $64,990 – an ex-
ample that career milestones could car-
ry heightened value.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Schwarz said on
ESPN last week. “I think you can see as
the users grow – and they do astrono-
mical numbers every day – I think you
can see, like, how good the product is
and how addictive it is. It’s like day trad-
ing meets sports meets fantasy.”
A self-proclaimed “huge” James fan,
Schwarz has been involved in the sneak-
er collecting game, and he sees Top Shot
as another example of that hobby.
“To me, art is what you want it to be,
so now it’s Top Shots,” he said.
Cuban owns about 50 moments and
spent about $600 total. He entered the
market when moments were going for
$2 and $3, including one of Mavericks
star point guard Luka Doncic.
Moments are minted and then re-
leased into the marketplace through
pack drops. The base set (most com-
mon) sells for $9, while more exclusive
packs for higher-tiered cards go for
more.
Packs are currently sold out, but Top
Shot has been organizing “pack drops”
that double as site stress tests in which
5,000 users can purchase packs.
More than 90,000 people waited in
the queue last Tuesday during a base set
pack drop.
Once users make an account with
Top Shot, they are eligible to purchase
packs. If they strike out during a drop,
they can hit the marketplace to pur-
chase available moments – the current
highest listing is $240,000, for a Morant
dunk.
Top Shot’s recent popularity streak
has affected the market.
“(It’s) near impossible to get a pack,
and the lowest cost pricing for a card is
escalating quickly as the available for
sale supply is being overwhelmed by the
demand,” Cuban wrote. “That will be
the biggest challenge: maintaining the
equilibrium of supporting the existing
prices in their marketplace while keep-
ing pricing low for new collectors and in-
vestors. They may have to do HUGE
mints of new packs and see how the
marketplace evolves.”
Between Wednesday and Thursday,
Top Shot minted 317,000 moments.
Top Shot’s place
in collector’s industry
The trading card industry, and mem-
orabilia overall, made a comeback in re-
cent years before exploding in 2020.
Top Shot launched a closed beta to an
exclusive group of about 30 collectors in
mid-May and grew the community to a
few thousand before moving to an open
beta on Oct. 1.
“We want to figure out a way to bring
real value to sports fans,” Caty Tedman,
Dapper’s head of partnerships who
oversees Top Shot, told USA TODAY
Sports. “It’s a really exciting opportuni-
ty for fans to take part in a basketball
economy.”
Issues in the physical card industry,
such as condition and authenticity,
need not be accounted for on Top Shot
thanks to the blockchain. Additionally,
prospective buyers can see exactly how
much a moment has previously sold for,
who has owned it and all dates of its pri-
or sales.
Daily fantasy users were early adopt-
ers of Top Shot, which has already de-
veloped a weekly fantasy game for mo-
ments, called Swyssh. Hypothetical
matchups can be simulated thanks to
the digital nature of the item.
“That’s part of what makes the mo-
ments on blockchain great, is all of that
data is on chain, and someone can tap
into it to build something that maybe we
never even thought of,” Tedman said. “It
wouldn’t be impossible to do that with a
physical good, but it would be really,
really hard.”
Top Shot has been developing a mo-
bile game, Hardcourt, for the last 18
months that should be released in the
near future, Tedman added.
Thinking forward
The league and players association
began exploring and researching poten-
tial blockchain applications, including
digital collectibles, about three years
ago. In 2019, the NBA, NBPA and Dapper
announced a multiyear licensing agree-
ment. (None of the parties would dis-
close the financial terms.)
Dapper had developed product pitch-
es for several sports, Tedman said, but
viewed the NBA in high regard because
of its reputation as a forward-thinking,
tech-savvy organization.
“They kind of always were at the top
of our list of dream partners,” Tedman
said. “It just so happened that at the
same time they were starting to explore
blockchain deeply as well, so when we
came to the table together and pitched
this consumer product, they loved it and
they helped us along the way to make it
better, and better for their fans. Our
pitch didn’t really did not waiver much
from what you see today, which is par-
ticularly exciting.”
UFC also has a partnership with Dap-
per, and the company has spoken with
basically every major sports league
about how it would look for their fan
base, Tedman said.
They’ll all be playing behind the NBA,
which pounced on an opportunity to
build a digital ecosystem while provid-
ing fans with even more ways to connect
with the league and its players another
revenue source.
Josh Hart of the Pelicans is an early
adopter of Top Shot and has opened
packs on livestreams and proclaimed
that the concept exudes “swag.”
The Kings’ Tyrese Haliburton hyped
the product and attempted to persuade
teammates to join him on the platform.
“We were surprised to see (player in-
volvement) this early, but not surprised
to see it at all … especially the guys who
are leaning in and understand how to
build a collection and understand prun-
ing that collection and understand the
churn of putting stuff back into the mar-
ketplace so you can buy more packs. It’s
been super exciting,” Tedman said.
“It’s super exciting that it’s so posi-
tive and we haven’t really gotten any-
body saying, ‘I don’t get it,’ which really
is a great sign.”
Players are invested: They keep 100%
of the money from moments of theirs
that they personally sell on the market-
place, Tedman said.
On the flip side, the buyer will have
little trouble proving it was previously
owned by that player.
“We are excited about this new and
unique partnership with Dapper and
look forward to a continued collabora-
tion with them on the future growth of
this product offering,” Josh Goodstadt,
executive vice president of licensing for
THINK450, which is the business arm of
the NBPA, said in a statement to USA
TODAY Sports.
Next up is the WNBA. Top Shot
doesn’t have a launch date yet, but
women’s moments will be available
soon.
‘This is a real market’
Dapper has already seen what hap-
pens when a product like this fails.
In late 2017, Dapper launched a prod-
uct called CryptoKitties. A CryptoKitty
named “Dragon” sold for $170,000 after
users initially flooded the market, which
had essentially evaporated 18 months
later.
“We learned that there needs to be
scalability in a platform,” Tedman said.
Tedman added that Top Shot grew
10% week-over-week just working
through the early days of the product
before taking off.
“We need to be able to support that
number of transactions if we want to
reach our aspirations of being a global
basketball product,” she said.
Technical challenges have presented
themselves too. Last week, Top Shot be-
gan promoting a rare pack drop for noon
ET Thursday. The drop was delayed for
three hours before being pushed to last
Friday.
Concerns of online bots hijacking the
queue, thereby locking out customers,
drove the decision.
“We want to be responsible about
this drop knowing how many collectors
are excited for this Premium Pack drop,”
Top Shot tweeted.
Top Shot has faced complaints for
not having a smoother process to with-
draw money; until two weeks ago, Ted-
man said, one customer service employ-
ee handled all of the verification needed
to take money out.
The concerns are valid. But the be-
lievers are confident products such as
Top Shot are the future.
On Friday morning alone, a Steph
Curry assist from the base set sold for
$299 while a Bojan Bogdanović 3-point-
er (Metllic Gold LE) went for $2,900.
“Make no mistake,” Cuban wrote.
“This is a real market with real collectors
and real value. That’s not to say there
aren’t challenges, there certainly are,
but (intellectual property to NFT) is here
to stay.”
NBA Top Shot makes cyber splash
Cuban says craze
is ‘a real market’
Chris Bumbaca
USA TODAY
NBA Top Shot launched in closed beta during May before its current open beta became available to the public in October. DAPPER LABS
Sourcewell, a State of Minnesota local government
agency and service cooperative, is requesting proposals for Public Safety Communications Technology and
Hardware Solutions to result in a contracting solution
for use by its Participating Entities.
Sourcewell Participating Entities include thousands of
governmental, higher education, K-12 education, nonprofit, tribal government, and other public agencies located in the United States and Canada. A full copy of the Request for Proposals can be found on the Sourcewell Procurement
Portal https://proportal.sourcewell-mn.gov.
Only proposals submitted through the Sourcewell
Procurement Portal will be considered.
Proposals are due no later than April 20, 2021, at 4:30pm Central Time, and late proposals will not be considered.
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Estimated Contract Value (CAD) $80,000,000.00 (Not shown to suppliers) Reference Number 0000194072
Issuing Organization Sourcewell
Owner Organization
Solicitation Type RFP - Request for Proposal (Formal)
Solicitation Number 042021
Title Public Safety Communications Technology and Hardware Solutions Source ID PP.CO.USA.868485.C88455
Location All of Canada, All of Canada
Purchase Type Term: 2021/07/01 01:00:00 AM EDT - 2025/06/30 01:00:00 AM EDT Description
Sourcewell, a State of Minnesota local government agency and service cooperative, is requesting proposals for Public Safety Communications Technology and Hardware Solutions to result in a contracting solution for use by its Participating Entities. Sourcewell Participating Entities include thousands of governmental, higher education, K-12 education, nonprofit, tribal government, and other public agencies located in the United States and Canada. A full copy of the Request for Proposals can be found on the Sourcewell Procurement Portal [https://proportal.sourcewell-mn.gov]. Only proposals submitted through the Sourcewell Procurement Portal will be considered. Proposals are due no later than April 20, 2021, at 4:30 p.m.
Central Time, and late proposals will not be considered.
Publication 2021/03/02 07:55:51 AM EST
Question Acceptance Deadline 2021/04/13 05:30:00 PM EDT Questions are submitted online No
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