Moving Forward on the Geospatial Line Of Business

Federal Computer Week reports today on reviews under way at USGS of proposals for management support services and more under the Geospatial Line of Business (LOB).

According to the story, Interior reviewing Geospatial LOB proposals, vendors responded to a Request for Quotes earlier this month.

Under the request for quotes, USGS wants vendors to provide 16 program management support services including project management office support, quarterly and ad hoc reports for the Office of Management and Budget, fiscal 2008 business case and funding strategy, performance management plan, and business requirements strategy and plan.

The RFQ also asks the vendor to develop a geospatial business architecture, which will help agencies understand and implement a standard geospatial business model, value chains for data and services, and other geospatial components.

The federal government released its LOB and asked for comments in 2006. NSGIC was among a number of geospatial groups that provided feedback (PDF).