RFP for Email Processing Services

IETF Executive Director <exec-director@ietf.org> Tue, 18 July 2023 16:15 UTC

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Subject: RFP for Email Processing Services
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The IETF Administration LLC is soliciting bids for Email Processing Services.  

Overview:

Email processing is critical to the operation of the IETF as most of the work of the IETF takes place on mailing lists due to the globally distributed nature of IETF participants.  There are multiple software components, both custom and off-the-shelf, in a complex mail processing chain.

This RFP is for a service provider with expert knowledge of mail processing, to migrate our current mail processing systems to new cloud infrastructure and manage these services with an extremely high level of reliability.


Timeline:

18 July 2023             RFP Issued
8 August 2023          Questions and Inquiries deadline
15 August 2023        Answers to questions issued and RFP updated if required
5 September 2023     Bids due
19 September 2023   Preferred bidder selected and negotiations begin
6 October 2023         Contract execution and work begins

Bids are due by 22:00 UTC on the day noted above.

Full details of the RFP, including instructions on how to submit a bid and how to ask questions, can be found at 
https://www.ietf.org/about/administration/rfps-and-contracts/.

Please note that in order to maintain a fair and transparent RFP process, all questions or feedback regarding this RFP should be made to the email address specified in the RFP.

-- 
Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
exec-director@ietf.org

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