Subject: [Rfp-announce] RFP for BibXML Service

From: IETF Executive Director <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 16:07:35 -0700

The IETF Administration LLC is soliciting bids for the 'BibXML Service' RFP.  

Overview:

The IETF provides bibliographic citations in XML using the BibXML format, for documents produced by the IETF and several other standards bodies.  These citations are organised in datasets, with some pre-supplied, some generated and then stored persistently, and others generated on demand and cached for a short period.  The generation uses a mix of different mechanisms  These citations are automatically retrieved by tools like xml2rfc and kramdown-rfc2629, simplifying the authoring experience. 

The citations are available individually and as full datasets, through the web service at xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org (see ‘Citation Libraries’) as one of a number of services accessible through that page.  For an example, see the XML citation for RFC 7991. 

The IETF seeks a contractor to reimplement the various generation mechanisms in a common way, and to provide a new service for people to access these XML citations.  This reimplementation will need to anticipate the later addition of other output formats in addition to BibXML.

Timeline:

03 May 2021	RFP Issued
17 May 2021	Questions and Inquiries deadline
24 May 2021	Answers to questions issued and RFP updated if required
31 May 2021	Bids due
14 June 2021	Preferred bidder selected and negotiations begin
28 June 2021	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-and-contracts/.

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]