Request for Information for a Mobile Research & Development Technical Support Firm
- This RFI had a pre-bid event.
The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to invite prospective vendors to submit their qualifications to provide mobile research and development technical support to EDC and provide technical assistance to EDC to support the ongoing development needs for Stepping Stone, a mobile development toolkit (built in Java) to deliver educational multimedia content in low resource environments on low cost Java-enabled phones. Qualifications will be reviewed in accordance with Section 3.5
EDC has designed a software tool named Stepping Stone which acts as a multimedia slide creation tool for Java-enabled cell phones (Stepping Stone is compatible with Nokia S40 series phones). With Stepping Stone and a library of photos or illustrations, text and instructional audio, a teacher or curriculum developer can create a series of slides for viewing on a mobile phone by dragging / dropping components into place much like one would when creating a slide-based media presentation. The different lessons can then be loaded onto Java-enabled phones and played back as multimedia lessons. Java was selected for the development environment because research indicates that it is the single most widely distributed platform on phones worldwide.
The RFI provides vendors with the relevant operational, performance, application, and architectural requirements of the system.
