The vendor is required to provide maintain state environmental public health tracking network, my healthy community.
- Community facilitates demographic, and social determinants of health data, enabling federal and state agencies, healthcare facilities, communities, community organizations, and residents to explore visualized health data at granular levels
- The website shall include, but not be limited to the following items and information:
• The web-based portal must meet department and information technology standards and utilize tracking and public health information network (PHIN) metadata, data, and functional standards to facilitate:
a) Query, linkage, analysis, and utilization of tracking data and information.  
b) The portal shall support general public access.  
c) The solution must be able to be self-administered by state, which, at a minimum, includes:  
i) Uploading of data by the state
ii) Adding or editing content  
• Maintain a sustainable and modernized it infrastructure for data collection, management, and sharing that is reusable, transparent, extendable, and adaptable in partnership with department and users of their data.
a) Allow users to view and explore a wide range of population health and covid-19 indicators in a variety of investigative-friendly and visual formats, with real-time functionality including:
i) A secure and sustainable internal dashboard
ii) Tables, trendlines, charts, key performance indicators (KPIS)
iii) Maps, including choropleth maps
iv) Heat maps (animated and static)
v) Downloadable datasets in json, XLS, csv, spatial, .txt, etc.
vi) Ensure availability and access to relevant data through the use of modernized data pipelines
• Provide information about environmental and health topics on the website  
• The selected vendor must ensure that the website design and functionality adhere to the guidelines set forth by the Americans with disabilities act (ADA) to guarantee accessibility for users with disabilities
- Ensure the availability, accessibility, and dissemination of data for the development and reporting of morbidity and mortality measures related to the epidemic of opioid use disorder and opioid overdose deaths in state
• This activity includes updated morbidity, mortality, and treatment dashboards and other identified priorities for data dissemination and collaboration
- Ensure the availability, accessibility, and dissemination of data for developing and reporting violent death data per national violent death reporting system grant dissemination requirements.
• This activity includes updating homicide, suicide, legal intervention, and accidental death counts and rates on my healthy community. it may also include additional data stories of 5-year aggregations of state violent death reporting system data
• Maintain a public data dictionary with metadata, including:
a) Temporal resolution (daily, monthly, annual, or 5-year)
b) Spatial resolution (census block group, census tract, county, state, state house district, city, neighborhood, state senate district, and/or zip code),
c) Description
d) Rationale (for inclusion)
e) Indicators
f) Data source
• Communicate health data in diverse and multimedia formats such as (not limited to):
a) Multimedia data stories covering topics such as substance use disorders, covid-19 vaccination, and suicide
b) Present data in community profiles. the webpage with the community profiles will have links to the environmental and health measure data-specific tables, graphs, time trends, and other charts.
c) Aggregation of community-oriented, equity-focused data into an accessible equity counts data center portal
- System requirements
• The system provides a public website to visually display various health and environmental data in the state
• The ability to analyze local public health data and generate content relevant to the community's health needs, including but not limited to disease trends, preventive measures, and health promotion
• The selected vendor is responsible for independently hosting and implementing the provided website code and data on their designated platform.
• The platform choice is at the vendor's discretion and may or may not involve using AWS.
• The vendor should demonstrate proficiency in configuring the hosting environment, ensuring optimal performance, and addressing compatibility issues during implementation
• The vendor must develop a comprehensive process for acquiring existing data relevant to the website and proficiently join all data components.
• This includes establishing an effective mechanism to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data, ensuring seamless integration and coherence across datasets.
• The vendor should showcase expertise in data management, normalization, and reconciliation to guarantee the accuracy and reliability of the integrated dataset.
• The proposed data integration process should be well-documented and align with industry best practices.
- Interfaces
• The system provides a secure web-based user interface (internal dashboard) for department employees to display various health and environmental data in the state
• The system provides a secure web-based user interface for department employees to have personalized accessibility to view, change, and deploy to the public-facing website.
• Integrate visualization tools (charts, graphs, maps) to help users interpret complex health and environmental data easily.
- Analytics
• Provide access to analytic reports for the site for grant reporting requirements and internal needs.
• The proposed system should offer automation features for regular content updates, ensuring that the information presented is current and reflective of any changes in the local public health landscape.
• Integrate analytics tools to track user interactions with the navigation system, providing insights into user behavior for continuous improvement.
- Contract Period/Term: 4 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: April 1, 2025