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Hello Developers,

If you are interested by the subject RFP, you can access it online, together with the first attachment in HTML and the second attachment in XML (these attachments are referenced in the RFP).

Summary of requirements

Design, configuration and deployment of one bilingual (French & English) Acquia Drupal 6.9 web site with a custom theme (and sub-themes with color variations only), including creative services for three different proposed themes.

The Vendor does not need to provide any translation services.

Patrick Cormier
President
Government 2.0 Think Tank Inc.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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Question: Do creative services include the preparation of a company logo?

Answer: No. The company logo currently comes in two versions:

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Question: We are an IT Services and Software development company. We execute our open source (Drupal/PHP/Liferay) projects from India for cost effectiveness for our clients. Is this model acceptable for this project?

Answer: Yes. As long as the proposal addresses all the proposal requirements and the Terms and Conditions listed in the RFP, location of the Vendor is not important, although a slight preference is given to Bidders in Ottawa or Montreal because I can meet them in person.

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Clarification: At page 6 of the RFP, under "Evidence of Capability", contact names and phone numbers should be provided in the proposal for examples provided by the bidder.

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Please note that the Timetable at p. 4 of the RFP has been slightly amended - the Contract Award date is now 3 Feb and the announcement on drupal.org is 4 Feb.

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Question: When referring to "the ability to publish Information Maps written in Word", in what context will this be happening in? Will the client want to self publish content in word and post to the site automatically, or will the potential-vendor/developer be manually bringing the xml/html output of these files into the Drupal content? Would I be able to get more in-depth details on the sort of workflow the information maps will be involved in, what areas of the site they will function with?

Answer: There will be one person (me) opening Word on my workstation, creating and finalizing the specially formatted document in Word and saving it locally. Then, in Word, I already have a macro that allows for the automatic output of the document in .html (example) and another macro can export in .xml (example) - I would do this. I want to be able to copy and paste the .xml or the .html document (when opened in Notepad for example) into a Drupal "Page" or "Blog Post" or custom content type created by the bidder, whichever way is easiest and recommended by the developer. You can assume that I do not want complete automation and integration, i.e. I do not need a Word macro that will automatically publish to Drupal etc. Ideally I want the ability to publish information maps as blog posts, but I need help in ensuring that they display correctly within the custom theme etc...

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Question: The RFP goes over the business needs of the project and the technologies and options the site will contain.
However I'm finding the description of the actual site content and needed features/pages on page 2 lacking in detail. Could I have a more exhausting breakdown:

a) More detail on what these page types will contain, the basic form the client wants them in (I can do better mock-ups if I know what I'm going for) . The blog, will it be a personal/individuals blog, or be a variety of posted articles from various contributers/sources? What type of data is needed on the different page types (text, images, links).

Answer: The content of the site would include and be created / updated as follows:

  • Home page. The work plan in the proposal should include creative services to produce three fairly different home page mockups, one that is inspired from this design, one that had a very clean, minimalist content flavour and the other one according to bidder's inspiration. I have bookmarked a variety of design that I like and they can all be found here.
  • Blog. The blog will primarily, and for the foreseeable future, only by updated by one person - me. It is possible that other contributors be added in the future. Comments will be allowed (if unauthenticated - verified by Mollom). Trackbacks would be nice if they can be effectively filtered for spam. Blog posts will take the form of information maps or regular text posts with (sometimes) images, diagrams etc.
  • Pages. The site will contain a few static pages (About us, Portfolio, Services, Team and Partners) and possibly other "white paper" like pages formatted as information maps. Again, these pages may include pictures ("Team and Partners" for example).

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Question: b) Will all posting of the initial content be handled by your client? Will your client want to log in to make changes to content in the future?

Answer: Yes and yes.
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Question: c) What estimated volume of pages are we talking about, and how image intensive will they be?

Answer: Initial site may have about 6-8 pages and a few blog posts, not image intensive (see above).
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Question: d) Will you client want any other sort of standard pages (i.e. a contact-us form)

Answer: Home Page, About us, Portfolio, Services, Team and Partners, Contact Us... sounds about right. :)
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Question: On page 6 of your proposal, under the heading "resources", you mention CV's. I'm not familiar with this acronym,
what does it stand for?

Answer: curriculum vitae - a resume.
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Thank you to all bidders for your proposals!

The winning bidder is Glowingtree (Jeremy Cafazzo).

patrick