The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC), on behalf of the IETF, is
seeking one or more vendors to provide software development services. The
successful
bidder(s) will enter into a contract with the Internet Society.
The Internet Society (ISOC) desires to enter into an Indefinite
Delivery/Indefinite
Quantity (IDIQ) Master Services Agreement (MSA) with one or more software
development companies with which to accomplish its objectives. The MSA is an
Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract because it cannot be
determined at
this time the nature and number of applications that will be necessary. The
MSA shall
be for a three-year period with an option for two, one-year extensions.
Through the MSA
Work Orders will be issued for the delivery of specified software.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards development work is
supported by several specialized software tools, such as the Datatracker,
idnits, xml2rfc,
rfcdiff, and many others. New tools and significant changes to existing tools
will be needed,
for instance, to support the upcoming change in the RFC publication format.
These tools may
be developed in Python using the Django framework, or other software if there
is a significant
advantage or requirement to do so.
Being selected for entering into a Master Services Agreement will be a two-step
process:
1. Responses to this RFP will be used to identify qualified vendors to proceed
to step two;
2. Invited vendors will be asked to provide pricing information for the
development of a
specific application, including the assumptions and analysis used to reach that
price. The
purpose of this is to evaluate the analysis and pricing. It may not be used to
award the
development of this application.
The Software Development IDIQ RFP can be found at this location:
https://iaoc.ietf.org/rfps.html
Proposals are due 5:00 P.M. EST (UTC-5) 13 February 2015. Questions regarding
this RFP
are due no later than 21 January. Answers will be posted at the above address
no later than
26 January. Proposals and questions are to be sent by email to
iaoc-tmc(_at_)ietf-bids(_dot_)org.
Ray Pelletier
IETF Administrative Director