<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">FYI<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">announce--- via TC-Announce <<a href="mailto:tc-announce@lists.ogc.org" class="">tc-announce@lists.ogc.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[TC-Announce] OGC invites Tenders for the Provision of Compliance Testing Software Engineering Consulting Services</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">15 July 2021 at 23:38:01 AEST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:tc-announce@lists.opengeospatial.org" class="">tc-announce@lists.opengeospatial.org</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:announce@opengeospatial.org" class="">announce@opengeospatial.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:announce@opengeospatial.org" class="">announce@opengeospatial.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<hr class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><h1 dir="ltr" class=""><strong class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1319c73-7fff-20ca-cf6f-080022019ea4" class="">OGC invites Tenders for the Provision of Compliance Testing Software Engineering Consulting Services</span></strong></h1><p dir="ltr" class=""><em class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1319c73-7fff-20ca-cf6f-080022019ea4" class="">OGC is seeking the provision of consulting services in support of the Compliance Program’s TEAM Engine validator tool and related Executable Test Suites.</span></em></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><a href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4GDFdaBwYCVB0HVgtYSFAGAFUZUlcHAxkKV1BSXQRTBwYBXVZKVQRTVFFQXgRIUQZTUhkEUwIGGQACUwcVBAYEUQdTUgRXAFsAGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw" target="_blank" class=""><img alt="Banner announcing open tender for the Provision of Compliance Testing Software Engineering Consulting Services" src="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/uploadimages/image/CITE_Tender-SM_1024x536.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 314px;" class=""></a></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1319c73-7fff-20ca-cf6f-080022019ea4" class="">Contact: <a href="mailto:info@ogc.org" class="">info@ogc.org</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1319c73-7fff-20ca-cf6f-080022019ea4" class="">15 July 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites organizations to bid for providing Software Engineering Consulting Services to the OGC Compliance Program. Interested organizations should respond to the </span><a href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4BBFVRBVNVUh1UBwpSSFBRA1QZCQFQABkOAlQAAQZRUQFVVldKVQRTVFFQXgRIUQZTUhkEUwIGGQACUwcVBAYEUQdTUgRXAFsAGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw" class="">Invitation To Tender (ITT)</a>. <strong class="">Responses close August 15th, 2021.</strong></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1319c73-7fff-20ca-cf6f-080022019ea4" class="">The OGC Compliance Program provides a certification process that ensures organizations' solutions are compliant with OGC Standards, creating confidence that any compliant product will seamlessly integrate with other compliant solutions - regardless of the vendor that created them. </span></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1319c73-7fff-20ca-cf6f-080022019ea4" class="">The certification process makes use of the </span><a href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR5SBgZaDgVUVB1cUQ0FSFAFBgMZUgQFARkMVlFaAAUBV1YDUVtKVQRTVFFQXgRIUQZTUhkEUwIGGQACUwcVBAYEUQdTUgRXAFsAGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw" class="">OGC Validator tool</a> (aka TEAM Engine), which enables software developers to test whether their products comply with OGC Standards. The Invitation to Tender (ITT) concerns the provision of consulting services in support of the OGC Compliance Program, including working on issues and improvements related to TEAM Engine and the Executable Test Suites that power it.</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><em class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1319c73-7fff-20ca-cf6f-080022019ea4" class="">Further information on the required services, as well as instructions for bidders, are contained in the </span><a href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4BBFVRBVNVUh1UBwpSSFBRA1QZCQFQABkOAlQAAQZRUQFVVldKVQRTVFFQXgRIUQZTUhkEUwIGGQACUwcVBAYEUQdTUgRXAFsAGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw" class="">Invitation to Tender: Provision of Compliance Testing Software Engineering Consulting Services</a>. The deadline for responding to the ITT is 22:00hrs UTC on August 15th, 2021. </em></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><em class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1319c73-7fff-20ca-cf6f-080022019ea4" class="">More information about the OGC compliance process is available at </span><a href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR5UAVZQU1YHBh0AAA5RSFACBlIZUQNUVxlaVAIGCw5QAwFSXFBKVQRTVFFQXgRIUQZTUhkEUwIGGQACUwcVBAYEUQdTUgRXAFsAGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw" class="">ogc.org/compliance</a>.</em></p><p class=""><br class="">
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