Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA)

Content Management Solution 

Look and Feel Design Approach 

Electronic Payment Engine 

Open Architecture Solution 

Infrastructure Solution   

 Portal 

Infrastructure 

Security Solution  

Identity Management Solution 

Communication and Collaboration Solution 

Portal Operation and Hosting 

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solution 

Network Connectivity Solution  

Commercial Proposal  

 Commercial 

Section 

 Financing 

Section 

Financial Strength and Stability 

 Proposed 

Investment 

Contract Section  

To increase the value of the proposition, each prospective contractor may include proven 

solutions that are critical to the success of a statewide Internet portal, but may be 

implemented after the proposed infrastructure is built. 

Upon completion of the evaluation, total scores for each prospective contractor's 

proposal will be calculated and the ranked list of prospective contractors examined.  

SIPA reserves the right to reject any or all of the proposals.  SIPA also reserves the right 

to waive any irregularities or technicalities in considering or evaluating the proposals.   

6.0  RFP Terms and Conditions 

These RFP Terms and Conditions govern this solicitation.  Each prospective contractor 

must acknowledge and accept these terms and conditions in this RFP.  A prospective 

contractor must include such acknowledgement in his or her proposal introduction letter 

to receive consideration of his or her submittal. 

Evaluation and selection of the successful prospective contractor is at the sole discretion 

of the Evaluation Committee. Decisions of SIPA are final. 

COLLUSIVE BIDDING 

 The prospective contractor's signature on his or her proposal 

cover letter is a guarantee that the proposal was prepared without collusion with any other 

prospective contractor.  A prospective contractor is not restricted to forming a joint 

ventures, partnership or consortium, however, if any participant of the joint venture, 

partnership, or consortium is working in more than one proposal team, that participant is 

to establish reasonable controls so as to not permit any flow of information across or 

amongst proposal teams and his or her submittals. 

Request for Proposal 10/29/2004 

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