About Us:
ACCESS is a human services organization with multiple locations in the metro Detroit area specializing in employment, health, education, social services and far reaching national initiatives such as the Arab American National Museum, the Center for Arab American Philanthropy and the National Network for Arab American Communities.
Project Summary:
ACCESS requires project planning, design, and engineering services to augment its Let’s MOVE Forward advocacy website and create an add-on subsite for its MOVE summit. Site goals must be determined and a sitemap must be developed once content and structure requirements are designated. Design mock-ups must be provided and approved prior to implementation. The process must allow for multiple iterations to ensure the design template meets all requirements.
The site must be easy to use and management workflows must be clearly defined. All workflows designed for the site (custom or otherwise) must be demonstrated during the development process to ensure ease of operation and to ensure the solution meets all requirements. The development process must allow for the exchange of feedback to enable remediation in the event a component does not function as expected.
The site must be visually compelling and allow video and other visual content to be embedded into existing pages by non-technical staff.
Robust analytics functionality must be integrated into the site (the use of 3rd party tools such as Google Analytics is permissible).
Project Specifications:
Base content requirements include the following items:
- Pages should be flexible and allow non-technical staff to embed 3rd -party widgets, applications and visual content.
- Summit separately branded subsite for information related directly to the summit. This site must:
- Allow for the processing of registrations and the payment of any applicable fees directly on the site and allow for multiple registration types at different price points. This feature should also allow individuals to register guests.
- Have an integrated, easy to use reporting mechanism to allow for the easy extraction of complete sales/registration data.
- Feature separate and distinct areas in which we can feature conference speaker bios, a conference schedule, conference plenaries and conference sponsors. We must have the ability to link directly to each of these sections in emails and social media posts.
- The ability to integrate a 3rd party text action widget
- A mechanism for soliciting donations after an action has been taken on the advocacy site
- A website search engine
Administrative users must have some flexibility in regard to the content of the customer-facing notifications. Basic reporting functionality must be included to allow for the viewing and export of sales data pertaining to donation and event transactions. The process pertaining to all ecommerce related items must allow for multiple iterations to ensure the solution provided functions as specified and required.
Deliverables:
- The vendor will work with ACCESS to develop and provide a sitemap.
- The vendor will develop and provide design template mockups prior to implementation.
- The vendor will provide access to a test environment throughout development of the site.
- The vendor will develop all functionality requirements—specifically ecommerce--with usability in mind and will provide multiple iterations of any provided component if deemed necessary.
- The vendor will provide thorough documentation (including all custom code utilized) and direct end-user training to enable the client to support the site in the future.
- The vendor will provide support services to migrate the completed site to the client’s production environment if required.
- The vendor agrees to provide warranty for all services rendered for a reasonable amount of time.
Budget: To be discussed with prospective vendors.
Selection Criteria: Proposals will be chosen based on (in descending order of importance):
- Overall cost
- Features and services offered
- Alignment of the proposal with our intended vision
- Developer’s experience in working with nonprofits
Timeframe: Proposals are to be received no later than February 3, 2017. ACCESS will choose a winning proposal no later than February 13, 2017. ACCESS requires the project to be fully completed by April 28, 2017.
Submission Instructions: Please send all proposals to Jared Mouro at jmouro@accesscommunity.org . He may also be reached at 313-842 -1927 for more information.