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
