OpenRFPs: Open RFP Data for All 50 States by Clay Johnson.
From the post:
Tomorrow at CodeAcross we’ll be launching our first community-based project, OpenRFPs. The goal is to liberate the data inside of every state RFP listing website in the country. We hope you’ll find your own state’s RFP site, and contribute a parser.
The Department of Better Technology’s goal is to improve the way government works by making it easier for small, innovative businesses to provide great technology to government. But those businesses can barely make it through the front door when the RFPs themselves are stored in archaic systems, with sloppy user interfaces and disparate data formats, or locked behind paywalls.
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I have posted to the announcement suggesting they use UBL. But in any event, mapping the semantics of RFPs, to enable wider participation would make an interesting project.
I first saw this in a tweet by Tim O’Reilly.