The selected Respondent will provide full-service project management and technical consulting services for the development and delivery of the DCC. The work includes, but is not limited to (“Services”): 1. Program Management & Coordination • Develop and maintain an integrated project plan and timeline • Conduct regular meetings and stakeholder updates • Ensure milestones defined in the DCC project plan are met 2. Technical Architecture & Platform Development • Design and build the data commons website and backend infrastructure • Implement metadata management, cataloging, and discovery tools (e.g., CKAN, Dataverse) • Develop role-based access and identity management system • Develop a central ledger for tracking “Commons Credits” • Enable API-based data access and usage analytics 3. Dataset Curation and Integration • Assist in curating the initial set of datasets • Ensure metadata completeness and FAIR data principles • Support ingestion pipelines, version control, and provenance tagging
