Graphical design for Culture.cas Web site and select communication products
Culture.ca is Canadas cultural gateway providing its visitors with quick and easy access to the vast array of quality Canadian cultural content on-line. It is an initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage and is developed in collaboration with partners in the private and public sectors. Culture.ca aims to engage Canadians in cultural life, to educate and entertain Web surfers with the stories of many peoples, and to provide access to the best of Canadian culture on-line. No other Web site or portal provides such a broad and expansive view of Canadian culture in both official languages.
Culture.ca is designed to appeal to a broad audience. Its main target audience are Canadians aged 25 to 55. However, Culture.ca also will target the needs of certain demographic groups through specific zones such as an educational zone for teachers and students, a childrens zone and a zone highlighting Aboriginal culture content. In answering our users needs, Culture.ca is moving towards a portal model where we will develop new content partnerships and greatly expand upon our content features that support our robust links collection.
This contract concerns the delivery of the graphical design for Culture.cas Web site. It also concerns the delivery of graphic design templates for a selected list of Culture.ca communications products using the winning graphical design to ensure a common corporate look among all Culture.ca communications products. A successful graphical design must convey Culture.cas new direction as a content-rich Web portal while reflecting our mandate and mission, and user needs.
MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS
In order for proposals to be accepted for further evaluation, all of the following mandatory requirements must be met.
M1 Three (3) years and more in design for the Web, adhering to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
M2 Three (3) years and more in preparing communication products for the Web and for the print (traditional communication products).
M3 At least two (2) project that required the production of a variety of
communication products that demonstrate a harmonized corporate look. Provide both samples AND descriptions.
M4 Must be a private sector Canadian-owned and controlled company, with a head office based in Canada.
Intellectual Property:
Canadian Heritage has determined that any intellectual property arising from the performance of the Work under the Contract will vest in Canada, on the following grounds: The main purpose of the deliverables contracted for is to generate knowledge/information for public dissemination.
The maximum budget for this project must not exceed $40,000.00, (GST/HST excluded).
The project will begin on or around May 17, 2006 and be completed by December 31, 2006.
