Calls and Proposals
CSI seeks Expression of Interest from Vendors for
Conference Management Services
on a Turn-key basis for all CSI Conferences
According to its current plans, CSI will be organizing between 20-50 major International, National and Regional Conferences each year across the country, either by itself, or jointly with other organizations. It is proposed that CSI utilizes the services of a external vendor to create a common platform for managing all the phases of a conferences in a uniform manner, from Call for Papers to publishing of the Proceedings. In the process, the platform will provide a common, single-point repository for all intellectual artifacts generated by CSI's conferences, providing a convenient reference point for researchers, academics and other users. It is likely that this repository will take the form of CSI's Open Access Digital Library (OADL).
Vendors who can provide end-to-end Conference Management Services including, but not necessary limited to the following, are requested to contact CSI HQ.
1. A standard web-site template for all conferences
2. A common template for CFP of CSI conferences (conferences shd be distinguished as CSI conferences, associated conferences etc if needed) include paper templates.
3. Facility for assigning Officers (Conference Chair, Programme Chair etc)
4. Alerts to promote the event(like http://www.conferencealerts.com/)
5. Online submission of papers
6. Bidding for reviews
7. Assigning to reviewers based on bidding and topics
8. Download of the assigned papers by the reviewers
9. Submission and administration of reviews
10. Provision for meta reviewer
11. Support online meeting of Programme Committee
12. Assigning the accepted papers to the respective sessions
13. Administration of upload of Final version/ camera ready copy
14. Copyright provision
15. Registration, administration and invoicing of participants,
16. Data Imports (For example, reviewers and program committee members can be transferred into the system from an Excel list)
17. Automatic updates for all registered participants including mobile alerts.
18. Scheduling of the conference and date clash alert
19. Participant statistics and other reports with filters and export capability
20. Full-text search capability
21. Plagiarism detection
22. Extraction of Abstracts or Full-Text for creation of Proceedings and interfacing with Publishers
23. Interfacing with social media sites
24. ISBN updation facility for each publication
It is highly recommended that the Conference Services are hosted on an Open Source framework such as ConfTool, EasyChair or OpenConf.
Kindly contact CSI HQ with indicative pricing for the services as above and details of the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
CSI shall be the sole owner of all content generated through the platform.
Kindly mail your proposal to mini.ulanat@gmail.com on before 30th may 2011.