The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has released its draft RFP calling for technology partners to support it with the implementation and integration of the Mobile Seva National Rollout which was announced earlier this year. This project includes the rollout of mobile governance services across India. The partnership with the technology partners would be initially signed for a duration of 3 years which may get extended further based on review. The dates to apply for the tender will be finalised after the final tender is ready. The last date to apply for the tender will be 30 days from the date of advertisement by the government requesting for tenders. Note that the last date to provide feedback on this draft RFP was March 15, 2013. However, the details of the draft are as follows: Objective of the Mobile Seva Project: The broad objective of this project is provide citizens anytime access to government services on mobile phones to avoid multiple visits to government offices. Basically the government is trying to digitally automate all government services on mobile phones to ease the process for people and reduce costs for itself. In order for various government departments to have a single access point to the Mobile Governance Services, the following web portals have been established: mGovernance Information Portal, SMS Gateway Portal and App Store Portal The documents states that the Mobile Service Delivery Gateway will also act as the entry point to services available on Department of IT’s National eGovernance Service Delivery Gateway (NSDG) and State eGovernance Service Delivery…
