The School of Professional Studies is seeking to completely rebuild sps.cuny.edu on the latest, stable release of the Drupal CMS, focused on simple usability and navigation principles, along with branding consistency, digital campaigns user journey integration, and content strategy support to help CUNY SPS increase enrollment. CUNY seeks a website developer that possesses experience in the higher education industry, with demonstrated technical and digital strategy expertise to research, design, and build a robust design while meeting current web usability and accessibility standards. A separate support and maintenance contract will be required and ongoing and developed as the project unfolds. The final product will be launched on the Amazon Web Services cloud-based hosting platform, or a comparable web hosting provider subject to prior review and approval by CUNY and the ideal partner will have worked with AWS or similar service providers in the past.

Pursuant to its discretionary authority under the New York State Education Law and State Finance Law, this procurement opportunity is limited to businesses certified pursuant to Articles 15-A (MWBE) and/or 17-B (SDVOB) of the New York State Executive Law. As such, CUNY has not established subcontracting goals for this procurement. NYS-certified MWBEs and SDVOBs are strongly encouraged to respond back to this solicitation.

Per Part 1 of the RFP, a Pre-Proposal Conference has been scheduled for Monday, December 12, 2022 at 2:30 PM EST. The Pre-Proposal Conference will be conducted via Zoom. If your company would like to attend, please send a confirming e-mail to Marino.Pawlowski@cuny.edu by Close of Business on Friday, December 9, 2022 for the Zoom link.

The Procurement Lobbying Act (PLA) Applies to this Solicitation.

The restricted period began with the publication of this ad.
Compliance Procurement Lobbying Act
Required Forms: Vendor shall complete, sign and submit the following forms if they are selected.
1. “Offerer’s Affirmation of Understanding of and Agreement pursuant to State Finance Law § 139-j (3) and § 139-j (6) (b)”
2. “Offerer’s Disclosure of Prior Non-Responsibility Determinations and Certification of Compliance with State Finance Law §139-j and §139-k”.

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Contact with CUNY:
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