Census Bureau seeking cloud platform to design and deploy surveys

The U.S. Census Bureau is planning to deploy a cloud computing service in the form of Software-as-a-Service to design and deploy surveys, the agency announced. 

Census officials are currently seeking industry’s input on the project. 

The subscription service must include web-based survey design, programming and administration Software as a Service that is hosted on a FedRAMP approved environment.   

The subscription software must be a user-friendly platform for survey programming, administration, data collection, data review and data analysis. And, it must allow users to program a survey and collect data with ease-of-use and no prior experience in programming needed, according to the announcement.  

The total solution must also include a dashboard that can create accounts, access survey reports and provide a mechanism to manage the overall SaaS solution. 

The Census Bureau envisions using the cloud service provider’s environment to:

• Develop survey collection instruments.
• Import USCB survey sample/universe describing the survey participants.
• Deploy survey collection instruments created in SaaS environment and to collect respondent data within the SaaS environment.
• Use APIs to deliver respondent data collected in vendors SaaS environment to the USCB environment.

Responses are due March 31. Read more HERE.