SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Enhanced Content Technology
- Notice Date
- 2/14/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Government Printing Office, Acquisition Services, Acquisition Services, 732 North Capitol Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20401, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-GPODCSFDsys
- Response Due
- 3/9/2007
- Archive Date
- 3/24/2007
- Description
- RFI for Enhanced Content Technologies to support GPOs Digital Content System (FDsys) Contracting Office Address: U.S. Government Printing Office, Acquisitions Services Division, 732 North Capitol Street, NW Room A332, Washington, DC, 20401 Description: This Request for Information (RFI) is issued for market research, budgetary and planning purposes only The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) is developing a system (FDsys) to allow government content to be created, managed, authenticated, versioned and subsequently preserved in perpetuity. FDsys will ingest, preserve, and provide access to the information produced by all three branches of the U.S. Government. The proposed system is envisioned as a comprehensive, systematic, and dynamic means for preserving any type of digital content, independent of specific hardware and/or software. The system will enable GPO customers to obtain hard copy publications and to electronically access the content they want, and it will enable GPO to deliver that content in the formats its customer?s desire. The system is intended to automate many of the content lifecycle processes and make it easier to deliver the content in formats suited to the needs of GPO customers. GPO is requesting information from industry specific to the enhanced content functionality described in FDsys documentation (e.g., concept, requirements and release documentation). This information will be used assess the current state of available enhanced content technology (ECT), and may be used to revise FDsys documentation and plans in order to deliver key content functionality in FDsys. Background: GPO is the Federal government?s primary centralized resource for gathering, cataloging, producing, providing, and preserving published U.S. Government information in all its forms. Since its inception, under the authority of Title 44 of the U.S. Code, GPO has offered Congress, the courts, and government agencies a set of centralized services that enables them too easily and cost effectively produce printed documents. GPO has offered these publications for sale to the public and made them widely available for no fee public access through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The FDLP has also served the purpose of providing permanent public access to government publications. Content in FDsys will include all known Federal Government documents, but is specifically targeted to those within the scope of GPO?s Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), whether printed or born digital. This content will be entered into the system and then authenticated and catalogued according to GPO metadata and document creation standards. Content may include text and associated graphics, video and sound and other forms of content that emerge. Content will be available for Web searching and Internet viewing, downloading and printing, and as document masters for conventional and on-demand printing, or other dissemination methods. An internal pilot of FDsys will be available in summer 2007 and the first public release will be delivered at the end of 2007. The FDsys will count among its user classes over 5,000 content creation users working in all branches of the government and congress, over 500 Government service specialists, over 25,000 private sector service providers, 1300 depository libraries, 50 end user information providers, and the citizenry of the United States and the world as the ultimate end users. Additional information to follow this posting.
- Record
- SN01232387-W 20070216/070214221139 (fbodaily.com)
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