Website Design, Development, Hosting, and Migration Services Using WordPress and Drupal CMS
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BUDGET
EstimateTIMELINE
RFP Release: March 3rd, 2026
Q&A: March 3rd – March 17th, 2026
Proposals Due: April 3rd, 2026, 4:00 PM
Review & Scoring: April 6th – April 8th, 2026
Vendor Interviews: April 6th - April 10th, 2026
Contract Awarded: April 15th, 2026
Discovery Phase: April 15th – May 4th, 2026
Development & Migration: May 4th – July 10th, 2026
UAT & Staging Review: July 10th – July 31st, 2026
Final QA & Content Freeze: August 1st – August 10th, 2026
Go Live: August 11th, 2026
Kickoff: October 12th, 2026
Discovery: October 19th, 2026
Technical Platform Assessment: October 19th - November 6th, 2026
Development: November 9th – December 23rd, 2026
Testing: December 23rd, 2026 – January 15th, 2027
Go Live: January 18th, 2027
QUESTION DEADLINE
Issuing Agency
Vermont League of Cities and Towns
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DESCRIPTION
The project seeks a vendor to provide comprehensive website design, development, hosting, migration, and launch services utilizing WordPress and Drupal content management systems. Required services include ongoing website hosting with active monitoring, security, maintenance, design, and support. The vendor must offer managed hosting solutions with uptime guarantees, compliant data centers, automated backups, and robust disaster recovery plans.
Key deliverables include evaluation and redesign of search capabilities, reindexing of HTML and PDF documents (with embedded text extraction and OCR if needed), and enhancement or rebuild of online handbooks for improved information architecture, navigation, presentation, and searchability. Print and download functionality for all website pages should deliver clean, branded, high-quality, and timestamped outputs. The hosting environment must be suitable for Drupal 10, and the vendor should provide support for CMS upgrades, distributions, and optional single sign-on integration.
Additional requirements include support for metadata and faceted filtering, relevance tuning, and a clear plan for ongoing indexing and handling of large files. Vendors must ensure active monitoring of site performance, security events, and Drupal patches and updates.
Source attribution
This Settle analysis is based on the issuing organization’s public RFP listing.