The State of Mississippi is soliciting bids for a state web portal infrastructure. I seriously urge any of the larger vendors to take a look at this and consider bidding on it. If accepted (one would hope, as a Cold Fusion site), you can anticipate that there would be a flood of additional projects from dozens of state agencies, since they're all looking to this portal project to provide direction for the use of web technology within state government. The state is trying to accomplish several things with this project, including central processing of credit cards for online payment of fees and sharing of public data across all agencies that need it. The people who prepared the RFP are very interested in JAVA technologies. Since much of our data resides on the state's mainframe, they would like to make that data accessible via the web. Of course, security is a top issue. The description for RFP 3205 can be found at ftp://www.its.state.ms.us/pub/issinfo/rfps/rfps.htm The RFP is linked from that page, but the direct link is ftp://www.its.state.ms.us/pub/issinfo/rfps/3205.htm There is a mandatory vendor conference in advance of the bids that will be held on February 7, 2001 in Jackson, Mississippi. If you don't attend, you won't be able to bid. You don't have to submit anything prior to the vendor conference, and you will have two days following this meeting to submit questions. Following that, bids will be due by March 2. If a Cold Fusion solution is implemented, guys, this would place CF at the center of our state government's web presence and could result in a lot of work for a number of CF shops for some time to come. The influence would likely ripple out to the web design firms in central Mississippi. PLEASE take a look. After you download the RFP and read it, if you have any questions, contact Wally DeRossette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The project schedule is on page 25 of the RFP. I'm not directly involved with preparing the RFP or awarding the bid, but this process is handled here in my office, and I'm available to help you in any way I can. Feel free to contact me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, --John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
