Recovery.gov 2.0 Bid
From Sunlabs wiki
Outline:
- Introduction to our bid
"Sunlight Technologies Inc. is a technology services company that's provided support to federal agencies since 1837..." - Management Approach 15 pages
- Technical Approach 30 pages
- Past Performance 25 Pages
- Price Proposal No limitation. Size of print per page must be at least Arial 10pp font.
- Conclusion
Tie it all together. This is where you want to explain why you're the one to pick.
Notes
Check out http://trusted.resource.org/org-proposal.html for what one proposal may look like.
May need a prime bidder. Someone Sunlight friendly. Maybe RedHat? Perhaps Sun/Oracle with their MySQL connection?
https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=9745fb34e48a36a32b4fc589c3e371cb&tab=core&_cview=1 says we need to be on the GSA’S ALLIANT GOVERNMENTWIDE ACQUISITION CONTRACT.
Looks like the GSA Alliant Contract Awardees are set in stone. We would need to subcontract under one of the 59 firms listed in the Word doc at the bottom of the page.
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract. That means we need to break out the prices for each line item listed in section 4.4.4 and that's the total price.
Government Procurement-Related Web sites
Even if we're unable to qualify to bid-- we should still bid. This is as much about principle as it is about winning the bid.
Bids from unqualified sources are not reviewed. If we really think we have a winning technical solution, it may be worth the time to find an Alliance SME to partner with.
Glancing at the list, I believe BearingPoint, Keane, IBM, Unisys, and SAIC have experience with the XBRL standard -- others probably do as well. Keane is the SEC's primary contractor for its XBRL disclosure system and I believe Unisys is the prime contractor for the FDIC system. Any of the contractors should be smart enough to see the advangage of partnering with the Sunlight Foundation. Since the e-mail addresses of the program managers are all happily listed in the Word doc, perhaps someone would like to send a notice to each of them about this site and opportunity?
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved legislation on June 4, 2009, requiring the federal government to adopt XBRL as its electronic reporting standard. Moving to this standard now, ahead of final Congressional action, will preserve taxpayer resources by eliminating the cost of conversion from other standards and validate the bipartisan and unanimous judgment of the Congressional Committee with jurisdiction over government information technology.
