Website Redesign Services

The vendor required to provide website redesign services for include:
•    Increase and improve access to datasets through dashboards, visualizations, advanced search tools, filtering, and download capabilities. 
•    Increase engagement functionality and opportunities by incorporating interactive features and data visualizations. 
•    Install an efficient and modern content management system and tools for user-friendly functionality and updates by office staff.
•    Ensure strong security, reliability, and scalability for long-term sustainability. 
•    Update to allow full responsiveness for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
- Tasks
1. Agency content assessment and project plan development
•    Review current agency website, content, datasets, and propose presentation, engagement and visualization upgrade. 
•    Deliver a stakeholder and user consultation assessment report with findings and recommendations. 
•    Develop project plan, including timelines, milestones, and deliverables. 
•    Identify key features to implement (dashboards, map visualizations, storytelling) in collaboration with the office requests, needs, and vision. 
•    Define technical requirements, information architecture, data visualization tools, and content management system. 
•    Establish information architecture and content migration plan.
2. Website design
•    Develop wireframes and prototypes for key pages (homepage, data sections, reports, search tools). 
•    Incorporate responsive design functionality optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile in collaboration with the office requests, needs and vision. 
•    Ensure all electronic information technology developed or provided under this contract shall comply with the applicable requirements of the state electronic information technology disability access standards. 
•    Apply accessibility best practices 
•    Create an updated visual identity aligned with office branding approved by the office.
3. Website development and featured functions and tools
•    Develop a secure front-facing platform with search and query responsive functionality. 
•    Migrate existing datasets and content. 
•    Implement advanced search and filtering tools for datasets. 
•    Integrate interactive data visualization (e.g., tables, charts, graphs). 
•    Incorporate geographic locational search and filtering functionality. 
•    Enable secure user document download capability (pdfs, spreadsheets, datasets).
•    Develop a user-friendly content management interface providing the ability for office staff to upload different types of datasets, data imagery, narratives, and documents. 
•    Optional user sign-up for notifications of dataset updates and uploads
•    Compliance with federal and state data security standards. 
•    Installation of analytics throughout the website to track user numbers and demographics, and collection and document access.
4. Testing and quality assurance
•    Cross-browser, cross-device, and cross-operating system testing.
•    Accessibility and usability testing with sample users.
•    Security and performance testing (load time, uptime reliability, website and query responsiveness).
•    Quality assurance review prior to launch.
5. Training and documentation
•    Provide training sessions for office staff on content management, uploading datasets, and using new tools.
•    Develop technical documentation, standard operating procedures, user manuals and training media.
6. Launch and post-launch support
•    Deploy site to production server.
•    Provide technical support during launch phase.
•    Post launch maintenance and tech support services for bug fixes, security updates, and enhancements (e.g., 6–12 months).

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 30, 2026