The City of North Carolina is seeking a vendor to provide a scalable digital records repository and public search platform. The desired solution must offer metadata-driven search and retrieval capabilities, as well as retention-aware storage in compliance with relevant records retention requirements. The system should fully address the City's operational, security, and compliance standards while allowing for future expansion in document volume, user count, and supported document types.

Key functionalities include serving as the authoritative system of record for all stored documents post-ingestion, supporting storage in non-proprietary or widely accepted formats that ensure long-term preservation, and enabling accurate indexing and retrieval of both historical and newly finalized documents. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) features must allow for full-text and metadata-driven search of scanned and imported documents, while also accommodating documents that have already been processed with OCR prior to ingestion. The primary function of the platform is to provide a secure, non-collaborative, post-publication repository, with robust and efficient search and retrieval as essential components.