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CONTRACT K-1819-121: A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AND INTERPERSONAL FREQUENCY IN THE AMOUNT OF $243,750 TO PROVIDE WEBSITE EVALUATION, CONTENT MANAGEMENT, AND REDESIGN OF THE CITY OF NORMAN WEBSITE.
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BACKGROUND: The FYE 2018 Capital Budget funded a project titled City Website Redesign which funded $138,000 in FYE 2018 and $137,000 in FYE 2019. In May 2018, RFP 1718-69 was released requesting qualified proposals for an evaluation of the present site and its content, content management, and a redesign of the City of Norman website. Proposals were due on July 13, 2018.
The RFP solicited qualified organizations for a proposal to redesign, rethink, and replace our municipal website. The proposal solicited for a detailed response from firms including functional and technical requirements, implementation services, pricing, and demonstrations of any proposed solutions from finalists.
The present site has more than 1,000 pages, nearly 5,000 documents, graphics, and pictures. The site includes two (2) subdomains (normanpd.normanok.gov and normanfire.normanok.gov) each with individual designs. The site receives an average of 83,000 individual visits and 186,000 pages views each month.
DISCUSSION: The City's Information Technology Department maintains and supports the present site with only one (1) person. The content within the Department pages has been distributed to the various Departments to maintain data. Changes or additions to content are submitted for review of Information Technology to ensure those are formatted correctly prior to being posted to the site. Over time, we have found that some pages are very dated, graphics can be lacking, and there is need to "re-fresh" the site design. Initially the site was designed in-house by two IT staff (Judson LeRoi and Stacey Baker) and deployed over 10 years ago. It has become a full time job for the one person to keep up with the postings and minor adjustments. That co...
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