By bensheldon on

I wanted to pass this along--I'm not involved but would bid on the contract if I was available (I'm not):

Since our inception, the SCI website and related weekly emails that we distribute have been important tools in our community building work. We now have an exciting opportunity to add new features for our SCI Dorchester website that will enhance our ability to connect citizens with local civic opportunities and information (and once developed for SCI Dorchester, we’ll be able to utilize the new tools for other SCI sites as well). This web development project is made possible through an HHS Compassion Capital Fund grant.

To carry out the desired web development work, SCI Dorchester is accepting proposals to design, develop and host a community portal for the Dorchester community to share information, resources, and services, while creating a central location for residents and providers to access timely information on a consistent basis. Interested applicants must email contact information (with "Intent to Apply" in the subject line) to mcoleman@scidorchester.org. Web Developers with knowledge of the Dorchester community encouraged to apply. Proposal deadline is Monday, February 20th at 5:00 p.m. To download the Web RFP from the SCI Dorchester homepage, please click here . For more information, contact Marisa Coleman at 617-474-1422.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

The RFP includes the line 'All content, coding and graphics will become the sole property of SCI.' that would seem to rule out the use of Drupal (and any other open source CMS)

ToddZ-1’s picture

ToddZ-1 commented

Perhaps if they were sold on the advantages of a CMS vs. rolling a complete system from scratch they'd change that to read "All content, custom coding and graphics..."

the_other_mac’s picture

the_other_mac commented

Taking that logic, commercially-licensed products would be ruled out in the same way as open source, since they certainly don't grant exclusive rights. Presumably then the developer is also required to write their webserver, database and OS from scratch?

If you accept that a standard environment (OS) is assumed, then Drupal can reasonably be described as a standard web-development environment. In the eyes of the law, there's no clear line as to where the OS ends and the application begins.

Fortunately it seems that despite their lawyer, this requester has some common sense, since they specifically suggest the work use technology such as "Apache, MySQL, open-source CMS software".