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The IS&T Website Redesign and Service Catalog Project team will hire someone to redesign and develop templates for our website and service catalog in Drupal. The purpose of the site is to help the MIT community understand, get, and use IS&T services. The website will also help to expand the IS&T brand that promotes MIT’s commitment to excellence. IS&T is a service organization. Our website’s look and feel should embody and directly reflect our mission of service provider and our vision of making IT easy for our customers and ourselves. It should support our vision of self-service. It should reflect the major themes of automation, mobility, simplification, de-customization, and removing pain points. The site’s look and feel/design should focus on “What members of the MIT community want from IS&T.” The site design should revolve around the service catalog. [See sponsors vision for the project.]
Request for Proposal (RFP)
FINAL RFP for Website Redesign and Online Service Catalog (January 14, 2011)
Submitted to six firms:
Stoltze Design (partners w/indigo digital for development)
- Plans to submit a proposal by 1/28
Moth Design (partners w/pod consulting for development)
- Declined to Bid due to workload and schedule
- Submitted proposal on Monday, 2/7/2011
- Declined to Bid due to workload and schedule
iSitedesign (recently worked on MIT World site redesign)
- Declined invitation to submit proposal due to current workload/timeline
RFP Responses
Vendor Comparison Matrix (this shows the common elements for each vendor bid and lists some general open questions/differences)
Stoltze Design
Nimble Partners and Pixelslam (design firm that partners with Nimble)
RFP Questions:
- What process will you use for requirements gathering?
- What process will you use to validate the service catalog?
- Have you ever designed a service catalog?
- How do you design differently for a Drupal/CMS site vs. any other type of site?
- Do you have examples of sites that are designed for Drupal?
- Stoltze: On page 3 of your RFP it says 'acquire content digitally'. Will you load all the content to the new site?
- Nimble Partners: How would you remotely observe usability testing? Do you mean in the event that the testing was also handled remotely?
- Nimble Partners: For mobile devices, would you provide a custom template and customized content along with the custom css?
- Moth: What would be the additional cost for a mobile template, customized content, and style sheet for 1 mobile platform?
- What is your process for developing the information architecture? What would you do? What would you expect IS&T to do?
Service Catalog
Service Catalog Proposal (Jan 24, 2011)
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- Kickoff Meeting: Thursday, February 3, 11:30-1:00, W92-Downtown Crossing
Committee Members:
Christine Fitzgerald Rich Murphy (IS&T, co-project Project manager)Rich Murphy
Christine Fitzgerald (IS&T , co-project manager- Manager, Strategic Communications)
David Foucher (News Office/Tech Review Rep)
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