The House of Representatives is the latest governmental organization to choose Drupal as its web content management system.

The open source platform already famously powers the back-end of Whitehouse.gov and has made inroads in other federal agencies, too. (Full disclosure: FierceGovernmentIT.com uses Drupal.)

In a source sought notice (.pdf) posted on House.gov, the House of Representatives chief administrative officer says the institution is looking to hire a roster of vendors with Drupal experience to support congressmen in Drupal site development. In all, House.gov contains 520 separate websites, according to the notice.

The idea behind the notice is to create an approved vendors list member offices can call on to create custom websites, writes Dries Buytaert, who founded Drupal and helped launch Whitehouse.gov on the platform. Drupal provides the ability to "deploy new sites quickly and efficiently," Buytaert adds.

Congressional websites are of notoriously variable quality but incoming freshmen already have websites with a Drupal back-end.

For more:

- download the House source sought (.pdf)
- read Dries Buytaert's blog on House adoption of Drupal

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