Website Design Build Services

The Vendor is required to provide to lead a full redesign of the authority website and updates to the corporation website.
- Design a new authority website to create a modern, user-centric platform that effectively communicates the organization’s mission, showcases authority impact, integrates seamlessly with authority and corporation program websites, and facilitates meaningful engagement with program users as well as governmental and philanthropic stakeholders. 
- The new authority site should embody the organization’s brand identity, streamline content, and provide an intuitive, accessible experience across all devices.
- Discovery and Visioning Sessions: Facilitate workshops to gather input from authority and corporation staff, define website goals, and establish design priorities. As part of a separate contract, authority and corporation are developing a messaging framework to guide future campaign communications and to inform website content architecture.
- Information Architecture: Create an overarching structure that intuitively organizes the new authority website’s content and supports the user experience. The content architecture must reflect the organization’s evolving priorities and position authority for the next phase of growth and strategic direction.
- Wireframes: Develop preliminary designs that remain consistent with authority brand guidelines. Propose design elements that fulfill content functionality requirements, engage website visitors, and support on-going fundraising strategies, all while maintaining focus on maintainability, accessibility and UX.
- Anticipated page types may include:
•    Homepage
•    About
•    Impact
•    Staff/Careers
•    Support Us/Contact
•    News/Events/Public Bids
•    Programs/Services
•    Target Sectors
•    Resources
- Full Website Build: Lead the development process to build, test, and launch the new site, maintaining performance, security and SEO best practices.
- Website Technical Support: Provide technical support identifying a website hosting provider, managing the transition to a new site, and launching new web content. Ensure continuous uninterrupted functionality for users.
- Corporation Website Updates:
•    Site audit: develop familiarity with the existing design code for the corporation website, producing recommendations to optimize design elements and website functionality. Propose design updates for 3-5 sections of the website.
•    Discovery and visioning sessions: facilitate workshops to gather input from corporation and authority staff to define functional requirements for sections of the website that require more substantive overhaul.
•    Preliminary designs: redesign sections of the website to enhance existing content functionality, better engage website visitors, clarify corporation interconnected relationship with authority , and support on-going fundraising strategies, all while maintaining corporation brand guidelines and website maintainability, accessibility and UX.
•    Website updates: lead the development process to build, test, and launch the revised sections, upholding performance, security and SEO best practices.
•    Website technical support: provide technical support throughout the redesign process, ensuring continuous uninterrupted functionality for users.
- Authority and Corporation Website Maintenance
•    Post-Website Launch: Provide technical support for one month following the authority website launch and corporation website redesign. Address critical design, integration and other related functionality concerns. Support SEO strategy to minimize impact of any site content changes or site migrations on search rankings.
•    Training Materials: Develop a guide to support authority and corporation staff in maintaining site updates and design changes. Host one training session for each organization.

- Pre-proposal Meeting Date: August 4, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: August 06, 2025