About Us:
ACCESS is an Arab American community nonprofit 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 is in need of a responsive website for our MOVE summit that is built on a flexible and easy to use platform to allow for non-technical staff to effectively manage the site from a content creation standpoint.
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). The site must allow for the easy integration of social media content, from multiple accounts on multiple platforms.
Project Specifications:
ACCESS requires project planning, design, and engineering services to facilitate the creation of a new website 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.
Base content requirements include the following items:
- Internal Pages conveying information about ACCESS and the MOVE concept as well as informative content related to the purpose of this site. Pages should be flexible and allow non-technical staff to embed 3rd -party widgets, applications and visual content.
- News Articles including news content and blog entries. Blogging should be functionality built into the site and should not require the use of 3rd-party services.
- Social Media Feed that pulls content from other ACCESS sites and social media.
- Calendar-Based Event Feed that pulls content from other ACCESS sites.
- Summit/Event Subsite for information related directly to the future summit, which allows for the processing of registrations and the payment of any applicable fees directly on the site. An easy to use reporting mechanism must be integrated to allow for the easy extraction of complete sales/registration data.
- Text Action Alerts and Email Sign-Up Functionality
- Donations must be accepted through the site utilizing Authorize.net. Additional content types may be defined and become required during the planning phase of the project.
Additional ecommerce considerations include the implementation of a notification system to alert administrative staff of new registrations/donations/ticket sales, and the patron must receive a visually appealing html based confirmation. 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.
Timeframe: This project has an aggressive timeline. Proposals are to be received no later than December 9, 2016. ACCESS will choose a winning proposal no later than December 16, 2016. ACCESS requires the project to be fully completed by February 24, 2017, with a partial launch on January 20, 2017.
Budget: To be discussed with prospective vendors.
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.