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E-Government, Government Procurement

Australia shops for search service

By Adrienne Valdez | 10 May 2011

The Australian Government Information Management Service (AGIMO) is looking for a supplier of a managed search service for the Government Search Service.

The service is expected to be a managed service, provided in a SaaS-like manner, which allows people to retrieve information from public-facing government website.

According to an official statement released by AGIMO, the supplier will be responsible for the procurement, development and operation of the service while Finance and the user agencies will only be responsible for making the functionality of the service available to consumers.

The Search Service draws information from multiple content sources, including all government (federal, state and local) websites; government publications, including the National Library of Australia; media releases; website metadata; and the government service directory.

Requirements for the service including conforming to the OpenSearch protocol and support for compressed and uncompressed versions of non-HTML documents like PDF, RTF, CSV, Microsoft Office formats and Open Document formats.

Another requirement of the service is to be capable of “interoperating with other systems and protocols” on both IPv4 and IPv6 modes of operation.

The request for tender closes on June 14, 2011 and the delivery of the new managed service contract for the federal government is scheduled to begin in late August 2011.

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