They’re moving insanely fast. First mention of ‘an app’ was april 7, tender went out last Saturday, with a deadline of Tuesday noon. Preselection of 7 candidates out of 660 applications took 3 days. Final selection planned for April 21. Shipping app before the end of April (
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...) Utter madness.
On the plus side, they plan to publicize the source code of all candidates ‘for experts’, and there’ll be a live stream of the pitches of the candidates this weekend.