This document discusses federal procurement and problems with the current system. It proposes creating a new open source system called FBOpen to make it easier for vendors, especially small businesses, to find opportunities and bid on federal contracts. FBOpen would index all opportunities, allow full-text searches across opportunities and attachments, and provide a lightweight API and web interface to access the data. The goals are to simplify the process and increase exposure for vendors.
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Motto: If you aren’t living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.
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Whether you solely rely on Google or not, the future of search engines will play a huge part of your marketing plans. As Google and Bing look to continuously improve their customer experience, you too must continue to stay current on updates, research your competitors and test your strategies. Do that and you’ll make it through. Attendees will walk away with specific insights they can take back and immediately apply to their everyday work.
In this session Britney will uncover:
Where Search is today
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How to prepare for the future (complete with executable takeaways).
And much more
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Marlabs 2011 Job Opportunities for Graduate Students of Fall 2011. Details of various opportunities, technology programs, company credentials and Center of Excellence and Innovation centers are enclosed.
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Today Blackberry announced plans to look for a buyer. Over a year ago, I helped form a secret product and engineering team based Silicon Valley that was keenly interested in taking over the company. We wanted to move the company and its passionate customers to a custom enterprise tier of Android. We saw a troubled company that could be saved. We secured commitments of over $1B to pursue a turnaround. But we needed at least $5B more. Now, a year later, the strategy of an enterprise grade Android company is still sound, but it just might be too late to save Blackberry as an independent company.
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The advantages of in-memory computing are well understood. Data can be accessed in RAM nearly 100,000 times faster than retrieving it from disk, delivering orders-of-magnitude higher performance for the most demanding applications. Examples include real-time re-scoring of personalized product recommendations as users are browsing a site, or trading stocks in immediate response to market events.
In this webinar, we’ll briefly explore the trends driving in-memory computing (IMC), the challenges that surround it, and how MongoDB fits into the big picture.
Topics covered in this session will include:
- IMC use cases and customer case studies
- Critical capabilities and components of IMC
- How MongoDB plays a role in an overall IMC strategy within your enterprise architecture
- Suggested architectures related to MongoDB’s in-memory capabilities:
-- Integration with Apache Spark
-- In-Memory Storage Engine
-- Integration with BI tools
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3. Problems in Procurement
SoWs and SoOs are hard to write
Opportunities are hard to find
RFPs are hard to understand
Bidding is onerous for vendors
The selection process is onerous for KOs
Awards can seem rigged against SMBs
Registering to get paid is hard (SAM)
9. 1. Index all the opportunities
Solr, soon Elasticsearch
2. Download and index attachments
3. Thin API server
Node.js/expressJS/api.data.gov
4. Lightweight web interface
HTML/CSS/JS/Backbone
fbopen pilot: design
Many aspects of federal procurement could be improved. Search and discovery is the problem we focused on when we started developing the idea of FBOpen.
Basic market math: if opportunities are easier to find, we’ll get more bidders, which will lower cost, raise the quality bar, and bring more diversity to our contractor cohort.
Right now, opportunities are difficult enough to find and win that we risk elevating the skill and effort involved in finding and winning them above the skill and effort involved in delivering great products and services to federal buyers.
Problems: The current search mechanism has weaknesses. Results sometimes don’t match search terms; results aren’t sorted by relevance; and the search tool isn’t mobile-friendly.
More problems: boilerplate, requirements are often hidden in attachments
ALSO: Not all opportunities are listed in FedBizOpps. There are exceptions for opportunities < $25K, and not all types of opportunities, such as grants, are even on FBO in the first place.
BUT WAIT! FedBizOpps data is available on an FTP site, dumped nightly as an XML doc!
This is what an FBOpen API query and its returned results look like.
(Slide 5 for FBO comparison-- “Germination Services” under a search for software development?)
FBOpen benefits: * More relevant results, sorted by relevance * Mobile-friendly * Adds useful default filters (e.g., open listings only, excluding sole-source)
FBOpen isn’t limited to FedBizOpps data. We also include grants.gov data, and soon we’ll be adding bids.state.gov data, military Small Business Innovation Research contracts, and other sources.
FBOpen is already integrated with other sites: businessUSA.gov, the AFRL SMB Hub (in prototype), GSA’s mobile site.
The FBOpen Widget Builder lets anyone add a dynamic FBOpen query to any web page by just copying and pasting a few lines of JavaScript.