Date Created: March 23, 2016
About Us:
ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services) has been serving the community for more than 40 years. Founded by a group of dedicated volunteers in 1971 out of a storefront in Dearborn’s impoverished south end, ACCESS was created to assist the Arab immigrant population adapt to life in the United States.
Today, ACCESS is the largest Arab American human services nonprofit in the United States. With eight locations and more than 100 programs serving metro Detroit, ACCESS offers a wide range of social, economic, health and educational services to a diverse population.
ACCESS continues to honor its Arab American heritage while serving as a nonprofit model of excellence. The agency is dedicated to community-building, focused on service to those in need. Through initiatives like the Arab American National Museum (AANM), the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC), ACCESS Growth Center, and the Center for Arab American Philanthropy (CAAP), ACCESS serves all Americans.
RFP Summary: iOS Application
Project Summary:
The ACCESS Community Health & Research Center is looking for design and engineering services to facilitate the creation of an iOS application that will primarily function as a wellness tracker application designed to allow users to track their hookah consumption, provide metrics pertaining to cost savings based on submitted data, and provide informational resources, both through a repository found directly within the application, and through notifications scheduled to strategically trigger according to each individual's smoking habits. The application will require functionality to allow for the acknowledgement of cessation milestones and will need to allow users to share the information on various social media platforms. The requirements of this project may change once a developer is chosen to incorporate their expert input regarding the defined requirements.
Project Specifications:
- The application will require a hosted component to allow for registration and to allow ACCESS to collect and report on all information gathered by the app. The application will include a pre-survey as part of the initial registration process. This survey will collect basic demographic information and will ask users information pertaining to their existing smoking habits.
- The application will include a post-survey that will trigger as soon as specific milestones are met.
- The application will house a repository of information pertaining to smoking cessation, all of which will be shareable on social media.
- The application will be developed for iOS, but we would like explore the option of porting to Android if our budget will allow for it.
Deliverables:
- The vendor will provide both design and engineering services to facilitate the creation of an aesthetically pleasing and technically sound iOS application.
- The vendor will provide all source code and design elements used to create the application.
- The vendor will provision any required hosted components needed for registration, data collection, and reporting. ACCESS understands an ongoing cost may be associated with this functionality. The ongoing hosting costs associated with this functionality must be discussed and approved prior to implementation.
- The vendor will warranty all services rendered for a reasonable amount of time. With that being said, ACCESS would like to obtain pricing regarding the maintenance of the application throughout its lifecycle including updates required to maintain compatibility with future OS releases.
Deadline for Proposal: Monday May 2, 2016.
Proposal Notification: No later then Wednesday May 11, 2016
Projected Date of Completion: Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Sbumit Quotes to:
Please submit a short (1-2 page) proposal to Mariam Akhdar by email makhdar@accesscommunity.org