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 Announcement - TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR WEBSITE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE (RDPU)

 Duration: 28.09.2018 - 19.10.2018

 

The project is financed by the European Union



TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR WEBSITE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE

 

EuropeAid/155206/DD/ACT/AZ

 

“Ensuring Teacher Readiness for Inclusive Education” Project implemented by Regional Development Public Union (RDPU)

 

BACKGROUND

 

EU funded “Ensuring teacher readiness for inclusive education” project (hereinafter referred as “the Project”), implemented by Regional Development Public Union is seeking a company / consultant to develop their website and to provide website maintenance services.

 

The project will use this platform to raise awareness on inclusive education issues among general population, as well as to provide resource availability among primary school teachers, teachers and students of pedagogical universities and other interested parties.

 

OBJECTIVES

 

The main objectives of the creation of a website dedicated to inclusive education is following:

 

  • Be a resource on inclusive education in Azerbaijan.
  • Help build understanding of international developments and trends in inclusive education.
  • Provide a platform for interaction and information sharing among all those interested in inclusive education.
  • Promote in-service education and continuing professional development in the field of inclusive education.
  • Raise awareness of general public on issues related to inclusive education.



SCOPE OF WORK

 

The hired company / consultant will be required to create (design, develop, test, implement and maintain) a web platform within the designated timeline which meets the following criteria:



Features of the website

 

  • Home page with a graphic element giving an overview of the project and its main components;
  • Section for interested users – teachers, students and parents (study materials, online courses etc.)
  • Section for downloads of study materials, reports of the project;
  • Search engine: The solution should provide users with the ability to search for and locate content based on keywords and key phrases, date, country, work streams
  • Section of news: news archive, information about upcoming events; press announcements.
  • Additional web pages (links to other relevant websites, both national and European);
  • Discussion forum section;
  • Section of information about Regional Resource Centers to be created within the project with video  
  • Google analytics of website (auto programme).



The contracted firm / individual should provide the following:



  1. Website design

 

    1. Interactive, appealing, highly user-friendly and responsive web design;
    2. Average site load-time should be reasonable;
    3. User- friendly search engine;
    4. Able to render appropriately on a wide variety of different browsers, optimized for tablet and smartphones, and remote places (low connection);
    5. Social Network Integration;
    6. Site Statistics/Management Reports: The solution should provide authorized users with a number of relevant reports, for example user registration, site usage, key interests/topics being discussed within the collaborative spaces and other relevant statistical data.

 

  1. Website maintenance:

 

2.1. Web site content updates: the contracted web development company will be responsible for any technical problems of website during upload of content;

2.2. The contracted web development company will maintain full backup of the web site through the duration of the contract. The backup, code and source files will be delivered in full to client on closing of the contract.

2.3. The contracted company / consultant will have an automated testing system that checks for broken hyperlinks on the site.

2.4. The contracted company / consultant will verify regularly that the site is up and running, and will revert to the back up whenever necessary.

 

The contracted company will also be responsible for the purchase of domain name and hosting for the website.

 

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

 

The company /consultant should demonstrate and provide examples of previous experience in the performance of similar services as follows:

 

  • Be a reputable firm with at least 7 years of prior experience designing visually appealing and navigation friendly web sites;
  • Have a broad knowledge of current web development technologies and design tools in the field, and new software and other web programming languages and programs including use of HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, Macromedia Flash, Java;
  • Have excellent knowledge of recent trends in graphic design, web sites, including online video publishing, and social media networking;
  • Demonstrate the ability to create innovative and visually appealing design.



SELECTION PROCESS

 

If you have the required qualifications and are interested in this contract, please submit:

 

  • A proposal describing the previous work done in this area;
  • A portfolio of previous work of webs with similar functionalities developed;
  • A financial proposal to address the work.

 

The lump-sum fee which you propose for the consultancy should indicate the breakdown of all costs (website hosting, design and maintenance).

 

The proposals received will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

 

  1. Profile and experience of the company 40%
  2. Professional capacity and experience of professionals assigned 40% c. Accessibility and proximity of the support team 10%
  3. Pricing 10%




The deadline for submissions is COB, 19th of October 2018.  All proposals should be submitted to office@ie-rt.az . Please mention “Website design, development and maintenance proposal” in the subject line.



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