The vendor is required to provide the migrant mortality mapping portal project (m3p2) is an initiative to increase the robustness and availability of data on the deaths of migrating persons across the us southwest border by leveraging forensic information sources.
- The m3p2 team is currently seeking consultant partners to build the online platform that will make this data available to researchers, forensic professionals, family members, and the public.
- Core to the online platform will be:
• Interactive maps and data visualizations for the research team’s geospatial data
• Areas for specific audiences, such as research demonstrations for scholarly researchers and advocates
• General information areas about the project mission, scope, and further related resources
- Goals
• An accurate accounting of migrant deaths along the southwestern us border is the first step toward an understanding of the extent of and the contributing factors to these deaths.
• The project ‘s dataset is the result of the collection, standardization, and integration of data representing several thousand deceased persons who are presumed migrants, solely drawn from medico-legal and forensic sources from southern areas of texas, new mexico, arizona, and california
• A key digital repository contributing to better understandings of deaths in migration and will be the only platform based solely on medical-legal and forensic data to represent a four-state extent of this fatal migration region.
• The purpose of the m3p2 is to bring together data sources on migrant deaths across border jurisdictions, establish a centralized regional database (and data submission process), and create a public-facing website that can be used in research, forensic investigation, and other multidisciplinary projects.
- The m3p2 online platform will consist of a website housing various content and tool set areas, including text, images, web-based interactive maps, and more.
• Landing page with clear navigation to other areas of site
• Interactive maps (general, specialist), including some user-exploration tools and simple animations
• Other data visualizations and information resources
• Research demonstration areas (text + images, potentially embedded short videos or scrolly maps/story maps)
• Guidelines for using the site targeted to different user audiences (text + images, potentially embedded short videos or scrolly maps/story maps)
• Contextual and information areas: resources for advocates and family members; data ethics and positionality statement; “about” section with multiple subareas (“about the team”/” about the project”); contextual information on the dataset and data dictionary
- Mapping tools & data visualizations – general
• These should provide common basic map functionalities such as zooming in and out, filtering based on the underlying data attributes, and
• Selectable-to-display feature layers such as political boundaries, roadways, railroads, bodies of water, infrastructures (e.g., fence, checkpoints).
• The on-screen interface would include basic counts related to the current filter selections displayed such as with sliders and summary tables per state, county, or jurisdiction.
- Contract Period/Term: 6 Month
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: May 22, 2025