Redesign of Institute Websites
- This RFP has a location requirement.
The purpose of the RFP is to identify and select the most qualified organization to
redesign the Organization websites and develop the new Information Center website.
Technical Background:
• Currently organization’s websites are managed in a MOSS 2007 environment.
• All organization audio and video is currently streamed through Windows Media
Server
• Organization currently has a license for SQL Server 2005
• Currently websites are hosted with a third-party host
Key business requirements:
• Easily accessible and searchable content with a centralized search function
(i.e. Information Center)
• Intuitive design
• Search indexing – assignable keywords to content (pages and files)
• Control over what content to be available in search
• Ability to capture and display “trending topics” (i.e. top searches)
• The recommended infrastructure must be able to be administered in both
French and English.
• Versioning of content
• Alert system to notify users of new content – includes a robust, yet easy to
use alert management tool
• Commenting on articles (moderated and non-moderated/anonymous and
user authentication)
• Discussion forums (moderated and non-moderated/anonymous and user
authentication)
• CMS for content management
o Automated reminders to content owners for content review
o Content expiry dates
o Scheduled posting of content
o Workflow for content posting, approval and publishing
• CRM for user engagement and partnership building (nice to have)
• Social Media Integration (eg. Twitter feeds displayed on site, email to a
friend, easily share content on social media platforms)
• Multimedia – embedded YouTube and streaming Windows Media Video
capabilities.
• Streaming Quicktime capability (nice to have)
• Mobile friendly (Blackberry and iPhone)
• Central Events Calendar for all sites
• News from all sites to feed into Information Center
• Online Store Capability (Nice to have)
o Event Registration (Conferences, Virtual Programs, Workshops,
Seminars, Events)
o Sale of products
o Sale of publications
• Patient Safety Information to have a similar concept to iGoogle to allow
users to customize the display of content on their Information
Center homepage.
• Development of a UAT site, a staging site and a production site.
