SPICT - Serives d'application - A.12 Architecte WEB

Task-Based Informatics Professional Services (TBIPS) Requirement

This requirement is for Canadian Heritage.

This requirement is open only to those Supply Arrangement (SA) Holders who qualified under classes 1-Applications Services.

This requirement is open only to those TBIPS Supply Arrangement Holders who qualified under the categories A.12 – Web Architect.

The following SA Holders have been invited to submit a proposal:

Name of invited supplier SA Number
ADRM Technology Consulting Group Group EN578-055605/366/EI
CloseReach Ltd. EN578-055605/577/EI
CoradixTechnology Consulting Ltd. EN578-055605/324/EI
Eclipsys Solutions EN578-055605/716/EI
Emerion EN578-055605/412/EI
Excel Human Resources Inc. EN578-055605/329/EI
FoxRed Consulting Inc. EN578-055605/547/EI
FoxRed Consulting Inc. and CloseReach Ltd. in Joint Venture EN578-055605/444/EI
LeverageTek IT Solutions EN578-055605/639/EI
Leverage Technology Resources Inc., Farlane Systems Inc., IN JOINT VENTURE EN578-055605/388/EI
Lumina IT inc. EN578-055605/272/EI
Maplesoft Consulting Inc, Momentum Technologies inc.,Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton S.E.N.C.R.L., IN JOINT VENTURE EN578-055605/688/EI
Procom Consultants Group Ltd., Emerion , IN JOINT VENTURE EN578-055605/745/EI
Prolity Corporation EN578-055605/283/EI
Spectra FX Inc. EN578-055605/767/EI

Description of the requirement:

The Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH) manages a diverse Web presence comprised of various types of sites (corporate/departmental, multi-jurisdictional and collaborative) serving a wide range of visitors, including departmental clients and Canadians.

Transformation is an ongoing activity and as such PCH is undertaking an application portfolio review of the departmental applications, in order to simplify, homogenize and rationalize its applications, frameworks and middleware.

PCH is seeking Lucene/Solr expertise to support the replacement of its current search engine Oracle Endeca by Lucene/Solr in several applications.
A new indexed, full-text search solution will be designed and implemented to support 3 applications all residing in the website www.rcip-chin.gc.ca:

• Artist in Canada which contains 55,000 master records linked through 10 one-many relationships
• CHIN Data Dictionaries which contains 1,500 master records linked through 4 one-many relationships
• Forum which contains 1,100 master records linked through 4 one-many relationships

The project will involve implementing the Lucene/Solr architecture to replace the existing features supported by the current search Engine Endeca. The scope of the project could include but is not limited to:

• Evaluate all business use cases currently supported by Endeca search engine and find equivalent Lucene/Solr solution, such as:

• provide Lucene/Solr query
• provide unit test code using Lucene/Solr APIs

• The business use cases include the following but are not limited to:

• Stemming
• Facet search or dimension browsing
• Results sorting
• Results aggregation

Page navigation at the list level and at the detail level

• Possibly term ranking
• Simultaneous updates and searches
• Real-time indexing

Time estimate for global architecture – 3 weeks
Time estimate for each application (3 in total) – 7 weeks
For a total of 24 weeks

Proposed period of contract:

The proposed period of contract shall be from May 2015 to December 31, 2015.

File Number: 10141980

Contracting Authority: Sylvie Wegner

Phone Number: 819-934-1331

E-Mail: c••••••••@•••.••.ca

NOTE: Task-Based Informatics Professional Services (TBIPS) Method of Supply is refreshed on an annual basis. If you wish to find out how you can be a “Qualified SA Holder”, please contact R••••••••@•••••.••.ca