As-Needed Website Services

As-needed website creation, maintenance, enhancement, redesign, migration, and related services for the County Executive’s Office (CEO), including the existing Fair Funding website (smcfairfunding.org) or successor site. Work will be authorized through County-approved Task Orders or other written authorization specified in the resulting agreement.
- Security, WordPress Maintenance, and Technical Quality
• Maintain supported and secure versions of WordPress core, themes, plugins, server-side components, and other dependencies.
• Apply updates through a documented staging, backup, testing, approval, and production-release process. Emergency security updates may be expedited with notice to the County.
• Use least-privilege access, multi-factor authentication where available, secure credential management, backups, vulnerability monitoring, SSL/TLS, and other reasonable security controls.
• Avoid unsupported, abandoned, duplicative, or unnecessary plugins and document all approved thirdparty components.
• Use maintainable coding practices and preserve a current inventory of themes, plugins, integrations, custom code, licenses, and administrative access.
- Content Management and Reusable Components
• Use WordPress and Gutenberg, or another County-approved content-authoring approach, to enable appropriate County staff to create and update content without routine vendor intervention.
• Develop reusable, accessible templates, patterns, blocks, custom post types, taxonomies, and editorial workflows when needed.
• Provide clear content-author guidance for accessible headings, links, alternative text, documents, tables, images, video, and forms.
• Do not introduce vendor lock-in. County staff must retain practical access to administer and export County content and data.
- WordPress Development and Configuration
• New WordPress websites, microsites, landing pages, custom themes, Gutenberg blocks, custom post types, taxonomies, templates, forms, integrations, and approved custom functionality.
• Coordination with County or its stakeholders regarding site requirements, graphic or branding elements, user experience, security or other aspects of development and configuration
• Configuration or migration of hosting, environments, analytics, search, forms, newsletters, maps, calendars, and other County-approved tools.
• Secure and documented source control, staging, testing, deployment, and handoff procedures.
• Conduct search engine optimization
- Maintenance, Enhancement, and Support
• Ongoing maintenance for County-authorized CEO websites, including updates, security patches, backups, monitoring, content support, defect correction, and accessibility maintenance.
• Enhancements such as new pages, templates, blocks, forms, integrations, dashboards, features, or content structures.
• Technical support, troubleshooting, and coordination with TSD and County stakeholders.
- Migration, Redesign, and Retirement
• Migration from legacy platforms; content, media, redirects, metadata, search, and analytics transition; and validation of the completed migration.
• Website redesigns and modernization projects.
• Website retirement, archival support, export, redirect planning, documentation, and transfer to County or successor systems.