Deadline: 19 September 2011
From the announcement:
Today, [19 July 2011] the European Commission has taken a new step in realising an European Data Portal. They have published a call for tenders to develop the data portal on it’s electronic Tender Portal ted.europa.eu. All information can be found on this page.
Luxembourg, 19 July 2011
(by Tom Kronenburg)
At the Digital Agenda Assembly workshop on Open Data in June, mr. Khalil Rouhana of the European Commission announced the intention (slide 7) to build a European Open Data portal. Rouhana said that a EC Portal should become operational in 2012, holding a significant amount of EC datasets. It is also planned that by 2013 a pan/european data portal should present datasets published by the Member States.
Today, the European Commission has taken a new step in realizing the European Data Portal. The EC has published a call for tenders to develop the data portal on it’s electronic Tender Portal ted.europa.eu. The call for tenders is one of the necessary steps for realizing the ambition of creating one pan-european Open Data portal.
The tender procedure will result in a contract that encompasses four types of services:
- to develop and administer a web portal to act as a single point of access to data sets produced and held by European Commission services (and by extension to data sets produced and held by other European institutions/bodies and other public bodies),
- to assist the Commission with the definition and implementation of a data set publication process,
- to assist the Commission with the preparation of data sets for publication via the portal,
- to assist the Commission in supporting for engaging the stakeholders’ community interested in re-using the published data sets.
I checked to be sure and the tender is open to people based in the United States.
This looks like it could be both interesting and fun.
Check with your usual major players to see if you can contract out for part of the action in case they are successful.