Want to Redesign Recovery.gov?

By Robert Brodsky

The General Services Administration has issued a solicitation to redesign Recovery.gov. We'll have more tomorrow on our Next Gov site but here's a snapshot of what the Recovery and Accountability Board is looking for:

RATB and its contractors understand that the Recovery.gov solution shall, for automation and efficiency, allow for:

1) Evaluation of data quality to provide optimization of large, highly complex, rapidly changing data sets

2) Automated data replication

3) Standardization, normalization and cleansing capabilities necessary to support robust reporting solutions overt time.

4) Build for Speed and Responsiveness: This rapid response solution must be able to provide not only citizen-centric access but also the ability to respond to press requests, legislative branch inquires, and questions from different agencies.

5) Consider Information as a Service: Focus on developing an architecture that not only provides trusted, accurate information per the OMB guidelines, but also makes the information available as a service to a wide range of people, processes and applications.

6) Build to support Business Optimization: Adopt a flexible, services-based architecture that delivers high-quality trusted information to set the stage for true business process optimization, and link to adjacent high-value business processes, such as fraud detection capabilities.

In an unexpected move, the solicitation is open only to the 59 IT contractors on GSA's Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract - a fact sure to ruffle some feathers in the procurement community.

Proposals are expected to be due around June 26.