Subject: YangCatalog Conversion RFP

From: IETF Administration LLC Executive Director <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:07:23 -0800

The IETF Administration LLC is seeking proposals for the YangCatalog Conversion.  
The RFP and SOW are located here: https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/llc-board/rfps/

Please note the following timeline:
23 Jan: RFP Issued
30 Jan: Questions and Inquiries deadline
01 Feb: Answers to questions issued, RFP Addenda and Update issued
08 Feb: Proposals due
15 Feb: Selection made, negotiations begin
22 Feb: Contract execution
26 Feb: Work begins

Overview 
The SOW describes three independent project tasks:
1.	Support transitioning the operation of the YangCatalog to the IETF Secretariat;
2.	Support operating the YangCatalog web site; and
3.	Adding features of the yangvalidator project to the YangCatalog.

A bidder can choose to bid on one, two, or all three tasks. Bids for each section
are expected to stand by themselves. Each section will be awarded independently.

The contractors selected for any of the tasks are expected to have the following qualifications:
•	Deep knowledge of YANG models and the NETCONF protocol
•	Practical experience of the ConfD and various YANG-related tools (pyang, yanglint, etc.) 
•	Software engineering in Python 3, SQL database, Elastic Search, Django framework, 
UWSGI + NGINX (or Apache 2 and mod_wsgi), use of GitHub
•	Knowledge of the yangcatalog API (see the last section of https://yangcatalog.org ) and how 
to contribute to the yangcatalog project (see https://yangcatalog.org/contribute.html ).

Please reply with questions, if any, and a bid if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity 
to [email-masked]. 

Thanks in advance.

Portia Wenze-Danley
IETF LLC Executive Director, Interim