Subject: RFP for Review of current landscape of IETF document processing tools

From: IETF Executive Director <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:38:25 -0700

The IETF Administration LLC is soliciting bids for Review of current landscape of IETF document processing tools.  

Overview:

The IETF seeks a contractor to review the current landscape of tools that have been specifically designed to be used by the IETF community to work with IETF documents (I-Ds and RFCs) and to build a dataset about these tools, including technical details, maintenance processes, licensing and others, and further to determine what parts of the document production, management and usage lifecycle each tool supports and document that both as a lifecycle document and a coverage map.

Timeline:

16 July 2020		RFP Issued
30 July 2020		Questions and Inquiries deadline
6 August 2020		Answers to questions issued and RFP updated if required
13 August 2020		Bids due
27 August 2020		Preferred bidder selected and negotiations begin
10 September 2020	Contract execution and work begins

Full details of the RFP, including instructions on how to submit a bid and how to ask questions, can be found at https://www.ietf.org/about/administration/rfps/.

Please note that in order to maintain a fair and transparent RFP process, all questions or feedback regarding this RFP should be made to the email address specified in the RFP.

-- 
Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
[email-masked]