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Solicitation for Schedule 70 vendors to support the U.S. Forest Service ePermit app
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Open carlsonem opened 6 years ago

carlsonem commented 6 years ago

Question/Comment on the Forest Service RFP

Name and affiliation

Eric Carlson, TechTrend

Section of RFP documents

Draft RFP Response Questions

Question/Comment

My company, TechTrend, develops many applications in support of the Forest Service. All of our work in support of the Forest Service is done on the Forest Service's GitHub Enterprise (FS GHE), which is not publicly accessible. Can we include links to repositories that are located within the Forest Service's GitHub Enterprise? Since this is a Forest Service solicitation, I assume the evaluators can be given access to the FS GHE if they don't already have accounts. Same question for links to Github Profile's, which are also located in the FS GHE. Assuming the final RFP has the same requirement for links to repos and user handles, the same question will apply to that as well.

randyhart commented 6 years ago

We prefer open repositories as they demonstrate a vendor’s ability to work in the open. The technical quote response form will, however, include an opportunity to provide repository credentials. Please take a look at Section 3.i.f of the Questions.

carlsonem commented 6 years ago

Great, thanks for the information.

randyhart commented 6 years ago

I'm gonna keep this open in case others have a similar question. Thanks again for your interest!

samneogi commented 6 years ago

Our company, Biswas Information Technology Solutions, Inc. (BITS) also has developed open source applications (Clinical Trial Management Systems) but it is on NIH's github site. Our EPA web API source code is also in EPA's repository. This makes it very hard to demonstrate our qualifications as these are not public facing projects. This prohibits us from answering the RFI questions, but hopefully, we can provide information on the projects when responding to the actual RFP.

randyhart commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the comment. The RFP will afford an opportunity to provide credentials for private repos, in case that’s a possibility. Additionally, we are also open to viewing repos from non-government open-source projects as long as they fit the other requirements stated in the RFQ.