Challenge Summary
We are offering 10 final placements - $50 each!
Welcome to Crowdsourced Pipeline Research Challenge!
In this challenge we need your help to identify software/technology consulting opportunities to which the TopCoder community, and our customer’s community can successfully reply and deliver.
We will run a sustained campaign that will reward members for identifying viable opportunities to which we can bid. This is an initiative to let the community help us get more interesting challenges/opportunities/work to the community.
Important Rule for this Challenge
You are allowed to submit your research at any time during this challenge i.e .you are allowed to submit to the final phase even if you did not submit to the checkpoint phase. All submissions will be accepted (that pass screening). Note: while we are allowing this challenge to be "open" throughout we do recommend you submit to the checkpoint so we can review and provide valuable feedback.
Round 1
For Round 1, you are expected to submit your completed submission.
Round 2
For Round 2, you are expected to submit your completed submission again. At this point, you may have made changes to your submission, based on any feedback from the client (if applicable).
Project Background
We are missing opportunities to bring new and interesting challenges to the Topcoder community today because we are not aware of them, we are not aware of how crowdsourcing or innovation services can provide a solution, or both. So, we want to try new approach to identify these opportunities by turning to our community members to help us, we believe that 800k people can find and filter opportunities that are observable in the public domain faster and better than a team of 3 (or even 30 or 300) can.
Goals
- Finding opportunities that we otherwise were not aware of.
- Boost our awareness of federal opportunities for crowdsourcing and innovation services.
- Increase the number of opportunities that we qualify for bidding or not bidding.
- Innovation in methods to discover these opportunities.
- Creative ways to fit our combined services to opportunities.
Considerations
Below are some comments which you need to consider when searching for opportunities:
- Avoid random entries.
- Avoid copying of fedbizopps email filters (e.g. search “crowdsourcing”)
Focus On
- We are mainly interested in Web/Mobile/Internet Of Things opportunities, but also we want to see everything that you think would fit crowdsourcing.
- Opportunities should only be in USA, UK, Australia or EMEA.
Organizing Your Submission
Your submission should contain a detailed description of your submission. Preferably one document, with following sections:
- Opportunity Title
- URL to the opportunity listing page
- Opportunity Deadline
- Opportunity Value, if provided.
- Is it Request for Information (RFI) or solicitation?
- Explain fitness: How would crowdsourcing be used? We are looking for a tactical answer to this one. For example, if the opportunity is for new ideas and prototypes, how would you use Topcoder challenges to do that? Or, if the opportunity is to do a lot of work quickly, how in general would we use contests to do that? We don't need gameplans (although they are permitted) but we do want a clear idea of how you'd use contests to solve this "problem." Feel free to refer to past projects you may have noticed.
- Keyword/classifier used to identify opportunity.
As a reminder you can submit anything you think highlights the opportunity clearly.
The sky's the limit! Good luck!
Target Audience
The target audience are the Sales teams in Appirio and selected customers. This team will evaluate the opportunity, and will provide the feedback.
Judging Criteria
- Is there sufficient time before the RFP (Request for Proposal) deadline to reply (min 5 days)
- Does crowdsourcing or innovation bring a value that is unique?
- Is it clear how a solution to the RFP (Request for Proposal) is BETTER with crowdsourcing?
- Is this opportunity new to us?
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
Create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.
- You can take screenshot of your document and submit it.
- You can provide a blank image file and use it as preview image.
Submission Files
All original source files of the submitted documents; it can be PDF, HTML, DOC, TXT or RTF file.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted documents; it can be PDF, HTML, DOC, TXT or RTF file.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to complete one round of minor changes to ensure your submission meets the stated requirements of this challenge.
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.