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Draft RFP for the State of AK OCS to provide mobile access to initial assessment workers.
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Update requirements for minimum responsiveness #3

Closed mheadd closed 6 years ago

mheadd commented 6 years ago

Section 1.04 needs to be updated to reflect requirements for minimum responsiveness. The provided text is from the previous DPA RFP and is for reference only.

randyhart commented 6 years ago

@waldoj I think this is one that might be in your bailiwick. Once Joe has an account I think he could answer as well. Basically - what are the most important things that a vendor needs to have in their past performance to demonstrate they are ready to take on the ORCA mobility project?

waldoj commented 6 years ago

At the moment, we define that as "usable, responsive, user-facing web applications."

I'm not sure what "usable" means here. Does it mean that we can use them, to evaluate them? (That may be asking too much.) On reflection, I'm not sure what "user-facing" means, either, since all web applications are made for the audience that uses them. Maybe this:

responsive, mobile-first web applications that interface with an API

"Mobile-first" is a term of art that describes the philosophy for building a website, which is that you do start by testing on mobile, and desktop browsers are secondary, instead of the inverse, which is far more common.

I'm hesitant to be more stringent than "interface with an API." I'd like to only get vendors that have built applications atop APIs, but I worry that's going to eliminate too many potential bidders. Those vendors who have built systems atop APIs will lead with those, and those who have only, like, once put a Google Map on a website will only list those.

randyhart commented 6 years ago

That makes sense to me. Does this also mean that in the near future we need to build some API that will plug in to ORCA? Or get started prototyping on if it's possible? Or is this already a known?

waldoj commented 6 years ago

Yup, as soon as @vrajmohan figures out how we can interface with ORCA, that work will need to begin. Whether we'll have the time and/or the need to prototype is probably going to depend on what that interface looks like.

There's a scale of "no time to prototype" to "plenty of time to prototype," and another scale of "so complicated that we must prototype" to "so easy that there's no need to prototype." We don't yet know where the ORCA interface will leave us on that matrix.

waldoj commented 6 years ago

Before we resolve this issue, we need to move some of the language into § 4.07(i), per #18.

mheadd commented 6 years ago

This section is different than Section 4. This section is meant to ensure that firms are minimally responsive, giving them the opportunity to be evaluated (per criteria in Section 4).