Hi all,
I hope this is the right place to post this message, apologies if not.
The organization I work for (WoodGreen Community Services, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is developing a community service portal. I have been looking at DotNetNuke and believe it will meet most of our needs.
If you are a DNN developer (priority on Canadian consultants/companies), please take a look at our Request for Proposals (RFP). Below is a summary and link to the full RFP. I've sent this directly to a few Canadian DNN developers whom I've found online, and am hoping for a wider distribution, including to other .NET developers who may have alternative solutions (although who can beat DNN? :-) ).
We'll be hosting this site in-house on our own servers.
Thanks all,
Marco
RFP: Woodgreen Community Services - Newcomer Links Portal
http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_library_detail.asp?doc_id=1004175
Introduction, Goals and Objectives
WoodGreen Community Services wishes to develop a community service portal with a content management system (CMS) and interactive service components. The central objective of this project is to develop and implement an online service website for our newcomer clients, focusing on their employment needs. This portal will also meet the needs of staff to more easily publish information and content to our clients in a seamless, usable system.
Our focus is on developing a website that provides our newcomer clients with a space to work with us and together to share organized content and online engagement tools; in essence, a member-based website.
The website will help new immigrants to settle into the community and access employment in their chosen professions by providing them with on-line, interactive access to and connection with information, mentors and advisors, peers, and other learning resources. A goal is to make the website convenient for users and usable by a broad spectrum of clients (See Appendix 1 – Scenarios for an overview of how the site will be used).
WoodGreen also intends to use the portal system to develop future e-service projects and as an intranet for staff sharing of resources and content.
Project Goals and Objectives
Our goals:
* Provide more timely, updated and useful information to clients
* Bring/feed information from multiple partner websites or services
* Offer personalized and interactive content and e-service features to clients
* Maintain consistent site branding
* Decentralize the maintenance of site content, reducing bottlenecks.
* Back end interaction, integration and data exchange with other applications (including our existing Client Tracking Management System (CTMS) which uses SQL Server 2000)
Purpose of this Invitation to Tender
Phase 1 of this portal development will focus on developing the immigrant and employment service portal and moving the current static WoodGreen website to the new platform and integrating it with other applications. Phase 1 priorities are outlined as Core priorities in the Functional Requirements below.
Phase 2 will involve development of the organizational intranet. Some elements of this future phase are outlined as Secondary priorities in the Functional Requirements section below. Vendors should ensure that their proposal meets our core needs and provides cost and development information for areas of secondary priority. If secondary requirements are not able to be included in this development phase, it is likely that they will be included in future development.
This RFP will focus on Phase 1 of our development plan. It will form the basis for assessing prospective vendors.
Proposal Requirements
In preparing an estimate for this project, please provide the following information:
* Any details you might be able to provide on how your company would execute the project including design fundamentals and/or project approach
o Description of your solution.
o Resources required to implement your solution.
o Resources required to operate and support your solution.
* The amount of time your company will need to complete each component in each phase, including any terms and conditions therein
* A cost estimate for each phase, including any terms, conditions, and/or restrictions (in Canadian dollars)
* Your company’s profile and web site including sample web sites/development work and client references.
Important notes
* Please bear in mind the scope of the tender (see Section 3.1) of the full RFP.
* Identify various supply options, where available.
* Recommend the best solution for WoodGreen.
* Where providing a specification, provide a minimum and recommended specification.
* Where applicable, quantify and qualify your answers.
* State any special requirements, restrictions or limitations.
* State any assumptions on which your responses are based.
* Describe how well your package will integrate with WoodGreen’s IT infrastructure.
Your proposal must particularize the following items:
* Costs
* Timelines
* Proposed design and development processes
* Proposed technology to allow WoodGreen to easily add/edit content and services without need for vendor involvement
Proposal Submission
Deadline: All proposals must be submitted electronically no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday December 22, 2006 to mcampana@woodgreen.org.
Proposals received will be evaluated in the following two weeks. Short-listed vendors will be contacted by January 5, 2007 to prepare for product demonstrations to be delivered sometime between January 12th and 24th, 2007.
Please note that WoodGreen Community Services is a registered Canadian Charity and, as such, qualifies for charitable pricing offers available by some hardware and software vendors.
All inquiries (email preferred) may be directed to:
Marco Campana
Project Administrator
WoodGreen Community Services
815 Danforth Avenue, Suite 202
Toronto, ON M4J 1L2
Tel: 416-462-3110, ext. 2189
Email: mcampana@woodgreen.org