[powertower]

Seriously, even if no real or scalable solutions are ever provided, the government should hand out 10s of 1000s of business challenges and prizes every year... By having every government department list it's internal data and issues.

Your job would be to improve the processes, and/or solve the issues.

It wouldn't cost that much (the price of healthcare.gov website + a couple of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters), and would gear the nation towards entrepreneurship, a specialists workforce (not a replaceable unit workforce), and growth of startups.

And it would make the gov seem more rational and human.

[ceworthington]

Some of my Innovation Fellow colleagues at GSA are trying to do just that: making it easier for modern, small web development shops to apply for government IT contracts.

Check it out: https://rfpez.sba.gov/

[USNetizen]

I'm getting a ton of errors trying to register for RFPEZ. Everything from timeouts to 500 server errors. Feels like the Healthcare.gov issue all over again.

Also, why would one need to "provide a link to an image of your best work"? That seems very contrary to the point of procurement - especially given that so little of the opportunities are for actual design work. Furthermore, how does one link to work performed on an intranet, etc. (as most government work is)?

Seems like it needs to be thought out a little better. Is the "best work" link part of the selection criteria? How does this work with FAR requirements or simplify the RFP/RFQ process?

[ceworthington]

Hey USNetizen: want to email [e-mail] with some of your issues? The team is good, but very small and I know they would love your feedback.

[ammmir]

i just signed up for RFP-EZ, looks great, except all of the existing projects seem to be links to massive FBO RFPs. hopefully more projects are submitted soon!