Questions for W3C website redesign RFP

Hi Coralie & the rest of the W3C team,

This is a really interesting opportunity, I’ve been using the W3C site since I first got involved with the web over twenty years ago! My team at Studio 24 are very keen to respond to this RFP, I have a few questions I hope you can help with...

1) Will there be an opportunity to talk to your team about this project either before the proposal deadline or after (e.g. a conference call)? We strongly feel getting to know an agency is an important part of finding the right supplier. 

2) Do you have any technical requirements for a new CMS (e.g. platform) apart from a preference for open source? Or are you happy to review this as part of the project? 

3) You note a requirement for the CMS to be long-life and performance is a key requirement. Given the range of content on the W3C site one approach we would look to explore would be a Headless CMS, where we read in data from a CMS to build a robust, performant, standards-based front-end site. Is this an approach you are happy to explore?

4) I presume you are not expecting a fixed CMS solution and approach to be recommended in the initial proposal, we would expect this to be explored and defined in the project itself. Is that OK?

5) You note you use a “custom CMS” at present. What sort of content export options exist (e.g. XML) or can you tell us what database or content storage method the CMS uses?

6) How well structured are the content models in your existing CMS, or does this just require a complete review as part of this project?

7) Do you have an estimate for the number of pages that will need to be migrated from your existing site / CMS? Do you expect the chosen agency to take responsibility for content migration?

8) You currently use DuckDuckGo for your site search. Is there a requirement to review site search with this project, for example to add site search directly within your website?

9) You note possible face-to-face meetings in other email responses. Do you have any idea what country these would take place in? Please note we’re also very happy to do conference calls and use this with many clients.

Best wishes,
Simon

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Simon R Jones
Managing Director

Studio 24
digital design + technology

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