The IETF Administration LLC is seeking proposals for the Datatracker Meeting Application Improvements. The RFP and SOW are located here: https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/llc-board/rfps/
Please note the following timeline: 28 Feb: RFP Issued 06 Mar: Questions and Inquiries deadline 08 Mar: Answers to questions issued, RFP Addenda and Update issued 15 Mar: Proposals due 29 Mar: Selection made, negotiations begin 02 Apr: Contract execution 08 Apr: Work begins Overview: Eight areas of improvement to the parts of the IETF Datatracker that assist with building and displaying the IETF meeting agendas have been identified. Implementing these improvements will require some redesign and extension of the models in the meeting application and significant work on the views, particularly the primary schedule building view. The project will include minor yet pervasive changes to the conceptual models used by the application. The contractor shall work with the Tools Team on each deliverable by engaging in design change discussions, helping to identify and prioritize areas of highest implementation risk, prototyping changes for review with the IETF Secretariat staff as necessary, and completing the implementation of each deliverable. It is expected that the contractor will frequently commit deployable units working towards the deliverables. These may be part of several production releases over the duration of the project. The contractor shall provide automated tests to exercise the new functionality in all changed and added code. In particular, javascript created or modified as part of this project will come with automated tests (the current automated test coverage of the project’s javascript is poor). The contractor shall follow the instructions at https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietfdb/wiki/ContractorInstructions?version=26. This document refers to several existing Datatracker tickets as #nnnn. These can be found at https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietfdb/ticket/nnnn. Additionally, bidders for the Datatracker Meeting Application Improvements also have the option to be considered as a qualified software vendor for Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Master Services Agreement (MSA) purposes. IDIQ software vendors will be eligible for future software development projects to improve and expand to the existing IETF toolset, which has been substantially developed in Python using the Django framework. Please reply with questions, if any, and a bid if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity to [email protected]. Thanks in advance. Portia Wenze-Danley
