National Nonprofit Seeks Web Services Vendor
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The Council of State Governments Justice Center is a national nonprofit organization that serves policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels from all branches of government. Staff provides practical, nonpartisan advice and evidence-based, consensus-driven strategies to increase public safety and strengthen communities.
The CSG Justice Center evolved from the Council of State Governments' Eastern Regional Conference justice program to a national center in 2006, and serves all states to promote effective data-driven practices-particularly in areas in which the criminal justice system intersects with other disciplines, such as public health-to provide practical solutions to public safety and cross-systems problems. The CSG Justice Center builds on the solid foundation of work related to reentry, responses to justice-people with mental illnesses who are involved with the criminal justice system, and justice reinvestment-a data-driven approach to reduce corrections spending and reinvest savings in strategies that can decrease crime and strengthen neighborhoods.
The CSG Justice Center's Board of Directors includes state legislative leaders, judges, corrections administrators, juvenile justice agency directors, and law enforcement professionals, who together represent a cross-section of the senior-level state officials who shape criminal justice policy across the country.
Description of the project or program for which the consultant is requested.
On April 15, 2013, the CSG Justice Center launched csgjusticecenter.org, a single website to house all of the content from the CSG Justice Center's legacy websites, including:
justicecenter.csg.org
nationalresourcereentrycenter.org
consensusproject.org
justicereinvestment.org
reentrypolicy.org
Description of work/services requested:
The vendor will need to develop a clear deployment timeline for maintenance. Description of work should be detailed enough that the contractor can develop a budget for services.
The project will run from September 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014.
The CSG Justice Center is requesting the consulting services of a vendor to maintain and update csgjusticecenter.org on an ongoing basis, including:
- Upgrade WordPress core and plug-ins
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and fix custom plugins, stylesheets, and themes
- Provide ongoing security assessment and fixes
- Visual design mockups, front-end style changes, or browser compatibility review
- General support, debugging, and issue resolution for any non-hosting issues
- Consulting on best practices surrounding new features, plugins, etc. that may be beneficial
- Perform security review and "vetting" of existing and new code and functionality
- Provide general suggestions and improvements to enhance user experience, performance, etc.
- Other support and maintenance tasks including pro-active WordPress and plugin updates and testing, and other requests
Please list out the costs or cost ranges for each phase of the project.
Budget
The maximum hourly rate for these services is $175/hr for the vendor.
The contract term will be from Sept 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014 at which point the contract will be considered for renewal pending approval by finance. The maximum amount may not exceed $35,000. The monthly allowable billing can not exceed 20 hours a month at the agreed upon vendor rate without written or emailed approval of the Director of Communications at the CSG Justice Center.
Due date for the proposal along with a reference to the directions for submission.
Submissions are due by the close of business on Thursday, August 15th 2013.
Evaluation criteria
Bids will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Thoroughness and relevance of bid
- Vendor qualifications in developing/maintaining comparable sites
- Expertise in WordPress
- Ability to work with customizations including, Carrington Build
- Cost effectiveness
- Demonstration of a timely task management process
- Demonstration of relevant skill/capacity
- Any additional information or requirements potential bidders should include. Examples are:
- Examples of prior work
- Detailed cost estimates
- References
- Bids shall not be more than 10 pages
Contact:
Please direct all responses to this RFP and/or any questions to:
Mario Brito, Director of Online Services
Council of State Governments - Justice Center
100 Wall St.
20th Floor
New York, NY 10005
We would like to have all proposals by no later than Thursday, August 15, 2013 so we can make a decision to go with a specific vendor.
Please submit 2 copies of your response to the above address.
Responses received after Thursday, August 15th 2013 will not be considered.
