Contract for Interoperable Geospatial Portal Components

[Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov>]

This note may be of interest to anyone dealing with Government
movement toward components-based, services-oriented architectures
and/or use of standards-based geospatial components in systems.
(And, related to the upcoming OASIS EGOV TC "Workshop on services
orientated architectures", I would think.)

The U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee has a strong and
abiding interest in promoting a marketplace for interoperable
geospatial software products and services. Accordingly, an
early draft of a contracting vehicle for such products and
services is posted for review at http://www.fgdc.gov/geoportal/

At this point, I am especially interested in comments from
anyone who may have experience in establishing such a contract
vehicle for software and services. Contracts for buying hardware
components that are "plug-compatible" is common, but I'm not
familiar with equivalent examples in the world of components-based
services-oriented architectures.

We are tracking all comments received, so I do ask that you
please comment via the links embedded in the document, or
directly to geoportal@fgdc.gov

Thanks,

Eliot