Advice on planning and designing a website for the Company-Community Dialogue Facilitators Forum
This Request for Proposals (RFP) requests proposals from contractors to provide technical
advice on planning and designing a website for an online community of practice and
public web presence for the Company-Community Dialogue Facilitators Forum (CCDFF or
the Forum). In Section 2 of the RFP, we define the scope of the technical advice we seek,
which is divided into two stages: first, to advise us on a sustainable web strategy and
website development plan for a website to achieve the Forum's objectives, and, in a
second stage, after the Forum has approved the strategy and plan, to design, develop
and build the Forum's website. In Section 3 of the RFP, we describe CCDFF's
background, Steering Committee, members, purpose and activities. In Section 4 of the
RFP, we outline the profiles of CCDFF's two broad audiences: (1) its members, who are
facilitators of company-community dialogue, and (2) users and potential users of
facilitator services. The Forum's initial audience, its members, is concentrated in Sub-
Saharan Africa and Latin America, and the remainder are geographically widely
dispersed. We hope that it will expand more fully in Asia over time. User scenarios of
Forum members are included in the Appendix. In Section 5 of the RFP, we describe –
from our layman's perspective – the functions and technical attributes we would like the
website to have, which include a non-public members' portal with capacity for threaded
discussion among up to 500 members, as well as a publicly-accessible portal with a
searchable database holding fairly detailed professional profiles of up to 500 individuals
and organizations. Lastly, Section 6 sets out the RFP's terms and conditions.
