Economic Development Website Services

The Vendor is required to provide for a website development agency to redesign the office’s existing website and provide ongoing services.
- This website is to promote and market County as a regional, national, and international destination for business and industry and to provide comprehensive information to new or expanding businesses.
- Website development and re-design
•    Selecting a content management system (CMS) and technology for website development including discovery, branding, and overall design best practices
•    Gathering complete technical requirements in initial discovery for assessment of economic development needs, providing a CMS solution and guidance in designing and coding the website
•    Recommendation of the website properties and technologies
•    Providing at least three working site outlines and wireframes
•    Migration plan and implementation timeline from current website to the redesigned website
•    Plan for beta testing with description of sample size of testers and length of testing
- Provide priority emergency support for any hacks, downtime or broken links
- Maintain critical out-of-band security/plugin updates that require immediate action and resolution by testing and applying on a monthly scheduled date and time
- Maintain website including any custom code, plugins, and third-party software that is required for website function
- Provide a secure and regularly monitored service and data environment to protect against malware, intrusion, phishing, and other forms of hacking and spamming.
- Develop and design site components including but not limited to pages dedicated to landing, industries, resources, business climate, available sites, and general information.
- Creation of new content including but not limited to videography, photography, copywriting, copy formatting, and copy editing.
- Site must have the capability to display such forms as a “contact us” submission form that sends information via email directly to staff
- Develop training manuals for staff to be able to change content, assets, and documentation on all pages of the website to adapt to future needs
- Integration with existing and future social media platforms
- SEO site checkup and results reporting on a monthly basis
- Ensure downtime is minimized, with a guaranteed response time and reporting mechanisms to log activity, debugging, traffic monitoring, server health, and compatibility issues
- Allow for GIS map integration
- Include a plan and implementation of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices