Public online bidding process for government projects
Create a website where large and small government projects are opened to bidding from private companies, organizations, and individuals.
Make some information about the bids public so that interested parties can assist in ensuring that jobs are only awarded to those who are qualified and ready to fullfill them.
Streamline the process to make it possible for government to farm out micro-tasks.
Make it possible for citizens to volunteer in the service of important government work, either by donating labor or serving as advisors.
Create a tagging structure to make the site searchable. Publish listings using RSS and allow users to subscribe by email using a saved search to filter for the jobs they're interested in.
Make it easy for posters to cross-post some jobs to 3rd party sites that specialize in particular kinds of work like design, programming, research, or translation.
jesse_kocher
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Ynot56
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This already exists.
Openning up Government Contracting requires MUCH more than a web site.
The real problem is
1) Government procuring managers have no P+L responsibility (no profit)
2) Government procurement rules are designed to provide fairness rather than to get the best product -
DCdawg
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Much of it is already on line. See GSA.gov
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nerdychaz
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I don't quite understand how this would work. If you mean to do this for gov. contracts, I am all for it. But to find gov. employment? I would find this absurd.
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rjhancock
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It needs to be opened up to allow those that may not be government apporved can still offer the services needed to make what needs to happen, happen.
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mmb
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I've avoided government contracting, but I've been very exposed to it via my reserve experience. It is a mess of cronyism, under-the-table deals, and genuine ripoffs that needs to be fixed. Opening it up with a public interface will improve innovation, and get money out of the hands of the mega-contracting corporations into small businesses. SBIR projects were intended to do this, but failed.