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<div>My apologies for omitting this list from the release of the RFP last week. </div>
<div>Quite a big facepalm on my part.</div>
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<div>The Bidders conference call was held today. If there's enough interest, we would be pleased to hold a second. Just let me know. <font color="#000000" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 17.329545974731445px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </font></div>
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<div>Many thanks,</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Ann West <<a href="mailto:awest@internet2.edu">awest@internet2.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:53 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:affiliates@incommon.org">affiliates@incommon.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:affiliates@incommon.org">affiliates@incommon.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:participants@incommon.org">participants@incommon.org</a>"
<<a href="mailto:participants@incommon.org">participants@incommon.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:refeds@terena.org">refeds@terena.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:refeds@terena.org">refeds@terena.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Assurance Enhancement RFP for Shibboleth Identity Provider
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Good day,</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.63636302947998px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 17.329545974731445px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">InCommon/Internet2 invites the community to
respond to our Request for Proposal for the development of a Shibboleth Identity Provider plugin to address the technical requirements outlined in </span><a href="https://spaces.internet2.edu/download/attachments/9185/AssuranceReqShibIdPv17.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1365009714996" style="font-size: 13.63636302947998px; color: rgb(0, 109, 175); text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 17.329545974731445px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Assurance
Enhancements for the Shibboleth Identity Provider</a><span style="font-size: 13.63636302947998px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 17.329545974731445px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.
A copy of these Enhancements has also been forwarded to the Shibboleth Consortium for inclusion in their feature discussions.</span></div>
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Responses should be submitted electronically to <a href="mailto:admin@incommon.org">
admin@incommon.org</a> by 11:59 pm US Pacific Time (<font color="#000000">UTC/GMT -7 hours)</font> on May 31, 2013. To receive updates about this RFP process, subscribe to the ShibRFPInfo list by sending email to sympa AT incommon.org with
<i>subscribe <a href="mailto:ShibRFPInfo@incommon.org">ShibRFPInfo@incommon.org</a></i> in the subject.</p>
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Before submitting, <a href="https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCAssurance/Request+for+Proposal+-+Assurance+and+MFA+Enhancements+to+Shibboleth+Identity+Provider" title="Request for Proposal - Assurance and MFA Enhancements to Shibboleth Identity Provider" style="color: rgb(0, 109, 175); text-decoration: none; outline: none;">please
review the complete RFP</a>. </p>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">InCommon/Internet2 will be hosting a Q&A webinar on May 7 at 4:00 pm ET to assist bidders in developing their responses. Connection information is as follows:</span></p>
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<font color="#000000"><b>May 7, 2013 -</b></font> <font color="#000000">Bidder conference at 4:00 pm US EDT (</font><font color="#000000">UTC/GMT -4 hours)</font></p>
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Dial-in numbers:</td>
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+1-734-615-7474 (Please use if you do not pay for Long Distance) <br class="atl-forced-newline">
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<a href="http://internet2.acrobat.com/mars" class="external-link" style="color: rgb(0, 109, 175); text-decoration: none; outline: none;">internet2.acrobat.com/mars</a></td>
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Many thanks in advance to those that develop proposals.</p>
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Best regards,</p>
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<div>Ann West</div>
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<div><a href="mailto:awest@internet2.edu">awest@internet2.edu</a> </div>
<div>office: +1.906.487.1726 </div>
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