If you can get past pre-solicitation, solicitation, and procurement hurdles, then you are golden. However, until this highly opaque process is cracked and startups with no "accounts of past performance" are recognized by public institutions, lean innovators in civic tech face considerable challenges. That said, I think CfA's accelerator and the multitude of other incubators are a great place to take your civic focused product ideas. I look forward to seeing how this area of interest shapes up from an entrepreneurial perspective apart from its clearly needed public service role.